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 paraphrase Faulkner, in America the past isn’t even the past. For a country that is supposedly so young we sure do have long memories. In Yorktown we’ll recount some of that history, and also how some of that history intersects with today.
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.”
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.