1 Make sweet potato fries. 2  Peel & cut the sweet potatoes then mix with a little olive oil and a sprinkle of any or all of these: sugar, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg or pumpkin pie spice. 3  Place on lightly sprayed pan in a hot 450Â°F oven for about 20 minutes.4  Peel, cut and boil your sweet potatoes until soft. Peel, cut and boil your sweet potatoes until soft. 2  Combine 1/2C brown sugar, 1/4C coconut, 1/4C finely chopped pecans, 3T melted butter and a dash of cinnamon and layer this mixture on top of the smashed sweet potatoes in a buttered casserole dish. 3  Bake at 350Â°F for about 30 minutes.
Though much of its early work was concentrated in California and the West, after mid-century the Sierra Club expanded its efforts nationally, opening an office in Washington, D.C., in 1963.
In 1867, the first such national organization was formed. Led by Oliver Kelley, the Patrons of Husbandry, also known as the Grange, organized to address the social isolation of farm life. Like other secret societies, such as the Masons, Grangers had local chapters with secret passwords and rituals.