We had entered Grand Canyon National Park before sunrise, turning west onto the primitive road toward Point Sublime. This was in those ancient days when a Coupe de Ville could negotiate the unpaved miles with just a few dents and scrapes. My father had driven through...
Celebrate the release of Trace: Memory, History, Race and the American Landscape by Lauret Savoy. Her books include The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity and the Natural World; Bedrock: Writers on the Wonders of Geology; and Living with the Changing California Coast. Travel through the past and...
My new book Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape officially goes out into the world on November 10th. The Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley, MA, is hosting the launch party and my first reading that evening. To say that I am both nervous and...
From the front cockpit of the biplane, the surrounding mountains and broad plain below seemed familiar to me. I couldn’t remember ever setting foot there, yet I knew the place. After the pilot handed me control and I turned the plane into evening sun, memory...
Launch Podium, a digital content marketing service in San Francisco, is collaborating with Counterpoint Press to build an online presence for Trace and its stories. The new website www.readtrace.com is up and running! It’s been a true pleasure to work with the Launch Podium team to...
The paradox that is our nation’s capital struck me as from a blow on January 20, 2009. That day nearly two million people gathered to witness Senator Barack Obama become the forty-fourth president of the United States, the first African American in this office. My...
Dear Reader, Welcome to the website for Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Land. I am eager to tell you about my new book. Sand and stone may be Earth’s memory, yet each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory. My skin,...
On October 10th I will have the honor of presenting the keynote address for the Sixth Annual Women and Girls in Georgia Conference, sponsored by the Institute for Women's Studies at the University of Georgia. The theme of this year's conference is sustainability, and so...
I am eager to tell you about my new book, Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape , which Counterpoint Press will release on November 10, 2015. In a mosaic of personal journeys and historical inquiry across a continent and time, Trace explores how the...
U.S. Place Names Tell You Who's in Power The highest peak in North America now has a new old name. Following decades-long efforts by Alaska lawmakers, and a recent order by the secretary of the interior, President Obama has restored Mount McKinley to Denali, its traditional Koyukon...