Zoya Brumberg discovers Chicago, Oz, and everywhere in between.
Category: Walden
The land of the rugged individualist has 300 million people with 300 million stories. From Yankee clipper to Mexican immigrant, they’re all worth hearing, and you can read some of them here.
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.
