What’s in a Name
by Lauret Savoy
Give me a story, and I’ll give you one in return.
Anyone passing our yard might think the solitary child played with an imaginary friend. She... Read More...
Words That Fed Trace: Recommended Reads
by Lauret Edith Savoy
Sand and stone are Earth’s memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory. My book Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American L... Read More...
Still an American Dilemma
by Lauret Savoy
By Lauret Savoy
Not long ago I attended a day of talks given by internationally respected activist-writers working to curb climate change, species loss, and “run-amok capitalism.” A vocal, fairly affluent audience of a few hundred filled the New England village’s lecture hall. Hybrid cars filled the parking lot. I was the only brown-skinned person there.
Walking Thoughts on a Frozen Pond
by Lauret Savoy
A Stone's Throw Now is the time to walk on water, supported above liquid depths by a frozen plain. This ice demands respect. I listen . . . aga... Read More...
Desire’s Past
by Lauret Savoy
A Stone's Throw What is the integrity of history? Can memory be owned?Upland South Carolina that June was a thick ripening green, grown from re... Read More...
Migration in the Borderlands
by Lauret Savoy
A Stone's Throw
The San Pedro River in northern Sonora, Mexico, looking southwest toward its headwaters and the sky islands of Si... Read More...
Geographies of the Interior
by Lauret Savoy
A Stone's Throw
Hand-drawn Landforms Map of the United States, by Erwin Raisz, 1954. Click image for full-size view in PDF format.... Read More...
