“Topography of Kingston Hill”—essay on Potter Wood and Biscuit City Preserves.
“Tefft Hill Pilgrimage”—essay on the Tefft Hill stone circle and Old Mountain Field.
Deciding to write a pandemic journal with monthly issues featuring essays, short stories, and poems. Describing the background and motivation which led me to embark on this project.
"Introduction" (a rather disorganized assessment of where we are these days)
"Visiting Trustom Pond" (going further afield with a fellow music lover)
"Trustom Frolics" (a little epic poem about simple things)
"Nature’s Wedding Dress" (a poem…
This issue is devoted to war, not only in foreign lands but war against our own citizens by depriving them of civil rights and particularly the vote, their most precious possession. Strange that war arrives just as winter is ending and spring is on…
This issue of my pandemic journal is a continuation of my exploration of 19th-century American expansion westward. In March 2022 I covered my great-grandmother Christina Miller’s adventure in frontier Nebraska. This month I turn to my great-uncle…