Renee Nicole Good at 34th Street & Portland Ave—protestors murdered by ICE in the Minneapolis Bloodlands. Literary Landscapes by Ellen Lansky with Greta Gaard.
Renee Nicole Good – Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Section: Graves
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Elijah Lovejoy – Alton, IL
The publisher of an abolitionist newspaper, killed by a mob in 1837 after calling for “hearty and zealous efforts” to end slavery.
Mari Sandoz – Sheridan County, Nebraska
“Even with a breeze, the place was so profoundly silent that all of my own thoughts were too loud.” — C.J. Janovy
Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt – North Bend, Ohio
Though Piatt’s writing seems “sweet and peaceful,” it “proves to be like ‘the depths of a dark river,’ ‘shadowy and terrible.’”
Willa Cather – Jaffrey, New Hampshire
Willa Cather & the Old Burying Ground of Jaffrey, New Hampshire—where she was, finally, “dissolved into something complete and great.”
Edgar Lee Masters – Petersburg, Illinois
Ann Rutledge’s Grave—Jason Stacy on lost love, Edgar Lee Masters’s Spoon River Anthology, and exhuming the legends of Petersburg, Illinois.