Dreams of Virginia Dare
I was there the night it all began, but the greater part of this story I’ve had to piece together over the years from reports of others, mostly friends of mine, who are usually...
Category: Relict Matters
Grave Goods
In the years just prior to World War II, young Gus Kenny was studying philosophy at the University of California. He did not fare well in this department ruled by analytical philosophers, for he...
How Sustainable is the Idea of Sustainability?
[The following essay was written in 2002. “The more things change, the more they stay the same.”] Having gone through a forestry education back in the 1970s, and being a skeptic by nature when...
Living Landscape – A 1997 Interview with Gary Snyder
In October 1997, I interviewed the poet Gary Snyder. The subject of our discussion was the influence the American West and its literature has had on him and on his work. Over the course...
Lester Rowntree: Vernacular Natural Historian
“As I settle down, relearning how to live the well-rounded life, I begin to perceive that the tame, as well as the wild, has its place when it comes to collecting myself.” So wrote...