To write about your Earth Day experience, start by recalling details through consulting a photograph, journal entry, newspaper account, or website, if you have them. If not, memory will do. Tell us why you or other organizers decided to celebrate Earth Day in that particular way: All it would take, we thought, were some shovels and a few seeds.
Now add what happened by recounting the actions taken. Whether the celebration was an organized public event or a private, informal occurrence, what exactly did participants do? Take us there, including dialogue, if relevant. A little water, a little weeding, and we would have our first Earth Day garden. Following the story of your own event, consider what your Earth day celebration meant to you. What did you learn about the environment and the ecological challenges facing the planet?
Moving from the close-up scene of your own event to a wide-angle view of the world in which your event took place, consider issues or problems that provided a background to your Earth Day. Even within a global perspective, individual campaigns like banning plastic straws or limiting meat consumption target localized actions. Write about how your actions and attitudes fit in the larger Earth Day mission.
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If you have participated in more than one Earth Day event, compare and contrast them. This year is the 49 th Earth Day! How has it changed over nearly half a century?
What themes or projects have garnered public awareness? For example, at the first Earth Day, water and air pollution and endangered species took center stage, while today, human actions leading to a changing climate are seen as a much bigger threat to the earth than anyone could have imagined in Another shift can be traced from an emphasis on preservation to adaptation? How have you seen Earth Day change? And how have you changed your awareness and advocacy over the years, too? Finally, reflect on Earth Day itself. Given the immensity of the problems facing the planet, should anyone bother to celebrate Earth Day anymore?
Does commemorating Earth Day just once a year change policies and attitudes toward the environment and our role in it? Or is it a feel-good event that allows us to look away from the planet on the other days of the year? Whatever your story, think about how you might share it as personal memoir, testimony, or political opinion. Whether you write for yourself or for others, your Earth Day story is part of a planetary record of living here on earth. Subscribe at the right of this page for a monthly post with writing explorations at the end for creating your own ecobiography.
March is a month of intermittence. March is also the month of emergence. Walking around the farm these days or weeding cool beds in preparation for planting, I search for green. Poppies and daffodils reach for the sun. Tiny leaves of mint and thyme unfurl along roots and stems. Fall-planted garlic pokes through grassy mulch. Rhubarb propels its brainy head above a deep mat of autumn leaves. With longer days, the chickens have started laying again in earnest. I laugh at myself for thinking that daylight savings time has made a difference in their productivity.
Chickens respond to longer daylight, for sure, but do so quite separately from our mechanical and digital manipulations. Muskrat, most likely, which means its burrow cuts under the bank much farther back than I would have imagined.
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All these signs of emergence promise growth and regeneration of the natural world. Early spring—late March and April on the anthrocentric calendar—is a time of emergence for humans, too, at least those who live in a climate where the seasons make a difference. Warmer weather and longer daylight brings more time outside as we shed heavy coats and boots and the ennui of cold and dark.
Many of us celebrate a spring holiday of renewal in faith or love. Ever the optimists, farmers start seedlings in the greenhouse. I have to admit I need a little shove in March to get myself back out into the world again. January and February are quiet times for me when I write, organize, read, and stay home by the woodstove as much as possible.
March is my transition to a very busy summer and fall with farming and writing, not to mention recreation with family and friends. But March also gives me a chance to emerge a bit at a time, taking my cue from the weather. When sunshine beckons, I keep an eye on the sky, not trusting the forecast. But finally, I awaken to find flowers blooming and the first spinach ready to pick in the fields. Ecobiography can examine the influence of the natural cycle of seasons on human activity and the plants and animals with which we share an ecosystem. Thinking of the transition from winter to spring as emergence brings an opportunity to consider what is new in our lives, as well as observe the changes such transformation plays in the natural world around us.
In a short essay or journal entry, write about your experience of spring. As the days grow warmer and longer, in what ways do you experience the transformation from winter to spring? From dark to light? From cold to warmth? From quiet times to busy-ness? From solitude to social ties? Instead, Joel meets his morose stepmother, Amy, eccentric cousin Randolph, and a defiant little girl named Idabel, who soon offers Joel the love and approval he seeks.
From the Hardcover edition. Both brother and sister wander through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying strangers, toward an apocalyptic resolution. Worse, they learn that the undertaker, Fenton Breece, has been grotesquely manipulating the dead. Armed with incriminating photographs, Tyler becomes obsessed with bringing the perverse undertaker to justice.
But first, he must outrun Granville Sutter, a local strongman and convicted murderer hired by Fenton to destroy the evidence. What follows is an adventure through the Harrikin, an eerie backwoods filled with tangled roads, rusted machinery, and eccentric squatters—old men, witches, and families among them—who both shield and imperil Tyler as he runs for safety.
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With his poetic, haunting prose, William Gay rewrites the rules of the gothic fairy tale while exploring the classic Southern themes of good and evil. Emily is a member of a family in the antebellum Southern aristocracy; after the Civil War, the family has fallen on hard times. Fading southern belle Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of strangers and is adrift in the modern world.
A sublime and seductive reading experience. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, this enormously engaging portrait of a most beguiling Southern city has become a modern classic. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares.
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Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining first-person account of life in this isolated remnant of the Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder case. It is a spellbinding story peopled by a gallery of remarkable characters: These and other Savannahians act as a Greek chorus, with Berendt revealing the alliances, hostilities, and intrigues that thrive in a town where everyone knows everyone else.
Narrated in turn by each of the family members—including Addie herself—as well as others the novel ranges in mood, from dark comedy to the deepest pathos. Considered one of the most influential novels in American fiction in structure, style, and drama, As I Lay Dying is a true 20th-century classic.
Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. Her new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: In this taut, chilling novel, Lester Ballard—a violent, dispossessed man falsely accused of rape—haunts the hill country of East Tennessee when he is released from jail.
While telling his story, Cormac McCarthy depicts the most sordid aspects of life with dignity, humor, and characteristic lyrical brilliance. An alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here. Set in a small town in the middle of the deep South, it is the story of John Singer, a lonely deaf-mute, and a disparate group of people who are drawn towards his kind, sympathetic nature. Contains Chronology, list of Further Reading and Notes.
The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic. Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, To Kill A Mockingbird takes readers to the roots of human behavior — to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos.
Now with over 18 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature. The Bigtree alligator-wrestling dynasty is in decline, and Swamplandia! It is a story of Hazel Motes, a twenty-two-year-old caught in an unending struggle against his innate, desperate faith.
In an ironic, malicious gesture of his own non-faith, and to prove himself a greater cynic than Hawkes, Hazel Motes founds The Church of God Without Christ, but is still thwarted in his efforts to lose God. This tale of redemption, retribution, false prophets, blindness, blindings, and wisdoms gives us one of the most riveting characters in twentieth-century American fiction. A-B , Last Name: Titles Appear On1 List Each. The Biography of a Place. A Choir of Ill Children. A Companion to American Gothic. A Curtain of Green and Other Stories.
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Although their folks were poor Midwest farmers rather than Southern sharecroppers, the stories are much the same. Make it do, or do without.
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Large families automatically dictated hand-me-downs, clothes made from flour sacks, cardboard pieces used to bolster worn out shoe soles, clothes mended with patches upon patches, bits of string and wrapping paper hoarded for when it would be needed. Nothing was thrown away. Children were taken out of school to work in the fields alongside their parents and to help with the seemingly endless parade of younger siblings. All this and much more is detailed here.
Phrases come into play such as growin' like a weed, fair to middlin', young 'uns, cash money, right smart, etc. I've certainly heard my father use all of them. Although the vernacular became wearisome fairly quickly, it was what it was. I doubt the book will appeal to the hordes, but it is most assuredly a story that was written from the heart. The author is the daughter of Annie Grace Chandler and this is her Mother's memoir.
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Although this is not a large-print edition per se, both of my parents commented on the ease of reading due to a slightly larger font and the double-spacing that was used. One person found this helpful. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. When a memoir is written, it's always much more interesting in story form - for me.
This is something the author accomplished beautifully. Over and over I felt like I was a part of the story as I read it and I couldn't wait to get back to the book when I had to put it down, because I had to know what happened next. The story made the thoughts and feelings of the main character, Annie Grace, seem current and tangible. I gave 4 stars because there were times when the old southern language became tiring while reading. Either way, it's a great story; it sure is!
As I read the experiences, trials, frustration, suffering, heartbreak, and joy this mother experienced in her lifetime, it made me cry Life for this family was extremely hard, yet, they were survivors I appreciate the author sharing the story of her mother and family. It makes you think twice before sweating the small stuff!
It was a great read and I hated to put it down!!! With some of the same southern roots in my background, I found this book amazing. I highly recommend this book, especially to anyone from the wonderful south! I have read the book three times and plan to read it again and again. I purchased two copies of the book, one for our son and one for our grandson. This book details many of the experiences of my husband's family growing up in South Georgia.
It is well-written and an excellent reminder of not-too-long-ago times that make those who lived it appreciate easier lifestyles today.