Sep 30, 2023 | Author Houses, Literary Landscapes, Missouri, Nonfiction, Volume 12, Writers of Color
Peter H. Clark 1909 Annie Malone Dr.St. Louis, Missouri By Marc Blanc Peter H. Clark lived in St. Louis when it felt like its brightest days were still ahead. Relocating from Cincinnati to the north St. Louis neighborhood called the Ville in 1888, the teacher and...
Sep 30, 2023 | Literary Landscapes, Michigan, Nature, Nonfiction, Volume 12, Writers of Color
Sojourner Truth Harmonia Cemetery Battle Creek, Michigan By Jeffrey Insko In the heart of downtown Battle Creek, Michigan, near the bank of the Kalamazoo River, stands a memorial statue of the abolitionist activist and orator Sojourner Truth. Twelve feet tall,...
May 2, 2023 | Literary Landscapes, Missouri, Nature, Nonfiction, Volume 11
Thomas Hart Benton Mark Twain National Forest Shell Knob, Missouri By Aaron Hadlow There is a burled oak tree that stands on the knuckle of a ridge finger behind my parent’s house in Shell Knob, Missouri. Despite its disfigurement, the oak is otherwise straight and...
May 2, 2023 | Literary Landscapes, Nonfiction, Volume 11
Hunter S. Thompson Churchill Downs Louisville, Kentucky By Charlie Cy In the spring of 1970, thirty-two-year-old writer Hunter S. Thompson returned to his hometown of Louisville to cover the 96th running of the Kentucky Derby for Scanlan’s Monthly. Less than 72 hours...
Dec 18, 2022 | Literary Landscapes, Missouri, Nonfiction, Volume 10
Kathleen Finneran North CountySt. Louis, Missouri By Marina Henke In the middle of winter a red cardinal lands on a birdbath. It sits, jumps onto a kitchen windowsill and flies away. A suburban backyard just north of St. Louis, Missouri. Such is the opening scene, and...
Dec 18, 2022 | Literary Landscapes, Nonfiction, Volume 10, Wisconsin, Writers of Color
Rachel Fort CrawfordPrairie du Chien, WI By Christy Clark-Pujara On November 4, 1834, a twenty-year-old “mulatto” woman named Rachel filed a freedom suit in St. Louis, Missouri. She claimed that a military officer named Thomas Stockton held her in slavery at Fort...
