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15 Jun “Ancestral Structures on the Trailing Edge” Released in Emergence Magazine (Audio & Text)

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THE LAST BREATH before dawn. A moment of undefined edges slipping between dark and light, when it seems one might step through time and space merged. From the crest of Virginia’s Blue Ridge I look over what, at the close of night, appears to be a...

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22 Oct Second Edition of TRACE with a New Preface Just Released!

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Dear Friends, Hot off the press!  Counterpoint Press is just now releasing another edition of Trace with a new preface from me.   I'm deeply grateful that Trace takes a second breath with this new edition!            ...

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23 May An American Question

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From Dear America: Letters of Hope, Habitat, Defiance, and Democracy Published April 2020, Trinity University Press   To my country: An old and perhaps unanswerable question has troubled me since childhood. Now it won’t let me rest. The Revolutionary War had entered its final years, still undecided, when J....

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30 Oct 2016 American Book Award – Acceptance Words of Thanks

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Thank you, Justin Desmangles.   I didn’t expect this. To be in the company of writers of such beautiful and powerful words is a gift; to be chosen and celebrated by the founders and board members of the Before Columbus Foundation on its 40th anniversary is a...

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25 Aug A Centennial of Possibility – The National Park Service Turns 100

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One lesson I learned as a small child was this: the American land did not hate. People did. These were the late 1960s, when riots ignited cities across the nation. These were years when journeys with my parents introduced me to national parklands. Yellowstone. Grand Teton....

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14 Aug A Gift from Terry Tempest Williams

Posted at 17:39h in Books, Events, From Lauret, National Parks, Thoughts, Writing by Lauret Savoy 0 Comments

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Last night Terry Tempest Williams gave me the honor of asking me to share her reading event with her. Terry is on tour with The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks for this centennial of the National Park Service. With gracious...

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03 Aug Placing Washington, D.C., and Slavery

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The openness and maturity of First Lady Michelle Obama's speech last week at the DNC National Convention stand in stark contrast to ignorant dismissive responses by certain pundits. But the truth remains. The White House, United States Capitol, and the nation's capital as Washington, District...

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28 Jun Red Rock Testimony Supports Bears Ears National Monument

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It's a great honor to be asked by editor Stephen Trimble & publisher Kirsten Johanna Allen to join three generations of voices speaking on behalf of Utah's wild lands and against a dangerous congressional bill (the Public Lands Initiative) in RED ROCK TESTIMONY: THREE GENERATIONS...

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17 May The Land Beyond Hate

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Seven years old on a sun-bright June day, she stands by the curio shop’s postcard rack. In their move across the country, her family has visited many national parks — Sequoia, Kings Canyon, Zion, Bryce, Grand Canyon — and at every stop, she runs first...

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15 May Some Thoughts on History Following the Hokule’a First Nation Landing Ceremony

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Following the ceremony welcoming the Hōkūleʻa and its crew from Hawai'i to Piscataway tribal homeland, I thought of ironies of history. The event took place on Piscataway tribal homeland in Piscataway Park. There the National Park Service works in partnership with the Accokeek Foundation, which...

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