Zoya Brumberg discovers Chicago, Oz, and everywhere in between.
Category: Walden
Gettysburg is my Jersey Shore – Ashley Pfeiffer
Some people went down the shore in the summer, Ashley Pfeiffer went to Gettysburg.
A Misunderstood Symbol – Jacob Ian
Over the decades since August 16th, 1977, our culture has rendered him nearly flattened, completely one dimensional, neatened into a nice little pile of quaint references and one-liners.
Horror in the Sierra Nevadas: A First Hand Account of the Donner Party – Eliza Poor Houghton
A harrowing eye-witness account of the infamous Donner Party. “I learned many things which I could neither have understood nor remembered had they not made them plain.”
To take this dark shape and make it into words – Wade Linebaugh
Fourteen years later, this is the first Fall in three years I’m not teaching about 9/11 to my students in First-year composition. Its absence is an odd sort of ache I never expected.
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