by Admin | Mar 8, 2023 | Uncategorized
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. ...
by Admin | Feb 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
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...
by Admin | Jan 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
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....
by Admin | Aug 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...
by Admin | Jun 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...
by Admin | Jun 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...
by Admin | Jun 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
It’s official! At last I write to say we have launched round two of interviews, summer 2022 is rolling. Last summer our travels were focused on doing interviews, connecting with people, and writing the blogs more or less as they came. This time around however,...
by Admin | Feb 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
An unseasonal snowstorm flurries around us in Whitehouse. Big white dry flakes spiraling from the sky. Kalenda has flown in from Norman to talk to us about her family homestead, and only José, who by chance wore a jacket, is dressed for cold. Kalenda smartly pulls a...
by Admin | Aug 28, 2021 | Uncategorized
Before we wanted to become good relatives, before Dina and I knew one another at all, we were connected through Panhe –”the place by the water” in the Acjachemen language. I had written about Panhe in the Surfer Girls book. Dina wrote an entire Master’s...
by Admin | Aug 27, 2021 | Uncategorized
We begin with Lulu’s garden and with Lulu interviewing me! “Why do you think the idea of the West persists for us, in North America? From a Mexican perspective, a child of a migrant,” Lulu says, “the other orientation was north, right? I find it so...
