Our visit with Margaret Jacobs in Lincoln represents the last interview of the project. Her newly published After One Hundred Winters has been our steady companion this summer over a lot of miles. I have a hard copy of the book in the van and also listen on Audible. ...

We cross the Canadian border during the 4th of July weekend into farm and windmill country and arrive at Victoria’s sheep farm in St. Agatha, southwestern Ontario.  Victoria awaits us down a wooded drive with a couple of Border Collies heeled at her side.  Later we...

We meet at a café on a rainy day in Corvallis, then find a dry place in Susan’s office to set up. Since 2017, Susan has been Director of the School of Language, Culture, and Society, at Oregon State University. Today the campus is closed in observance of Juneteenth....

This post is written by Zainab Abdali, the Clancy Taylor Summer Intern in Public Humanities. The Islamabad of my childhood no longer exists.  The stores I remember are gone, there are more cars and people than in the quiet city where I grew up. There were no shopping...

The Sangre de Cristo Arts Center is the immediate “where of here,” a place meaningful for Pueblo and for me personally.  We set ourselves up in the early morning cool in front of a colorful mosaic of inlaid polished stone.  Each stone names a Distinguished Leader or...

It’s serendipity that Audrey is in Santa Fe the very same week that we pass through on this summer’s Living West tour. Audrey is doing advance work as the President of WLA in 2022 with her co-President, Lisa Tatonetti. We find Audrey in the gardens of the Georgia...