Month: July 2019
29.07.2019
There’s Still Time for an End-of-Summer read
Summer is winding down, but if you make it to the beach one last time before fall, I…
20.07.2019
Jack Weatheford, Indian Givers; How Indians of the Americas Transformed the World. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1988. (Paperback edition from Crown Publishers, Ballantine Books Edition 1990.)
Brilliant. When I became the director of the Native American-focused Funk Heritage Center at Reinhardt University, I knew…
17.07.2019
Dog Deprivation Trauma (DDT)
Doc, I Need a Dog My second post-birthday visit to the shrink was last Monday. Naturally, I…
17.07.2019
Fire in the Woods
Historian in a Room Full of Forest Rangers In another life I was the founding executive director…
10.07.2019
Peachie the Labrador: Our Youngest Daughter is a Dog
The human kids are grown and only our yellow labrador, Peachie, remains at home. We brought Peachie to…
05.07.2019
J.D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. New York: Harper Press, 2016.
The Melting Pot of Grievances; Finding Context for Hillbilly Elegy We are drawn to conflict. In our literature,…
04.07.2019
Impressions of the Great War by a Young Georgia Poet Part I
“…like a sauropod in a tarpit…”
01.07.2019
White Tail Empire: The Deerskin Trade in the Southern Colonies (Part One: How the Trade Worked)
Trade in the southern backcountry was largely based on Britain’s need for hides-deerskins to be specific. That trade…