Mark Twain Cave—underneath Hannibal, MO, where in the middle of a tour, the lights went out, and “this shared, quiet darkness felt elemental and deeply human.”
Mark Twain – Hannibal, Missouri
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Heid E. Erdrich – Minneapolis, Minnesota
Heid Erdrich & All My Relations art gallery—“imaginative language-meaning” in the American Indian Cultural Corridor.
Meridel Le Sueur – Picher, Oklahoma
Meridel Le Sueur & a miner’s shack—how investigating environmental damage reveals “the hopeful and radical potential of regionalism and place.”
Jean Shepherd – Hammond, Indiana
Jean Shepherd’s childhood home—written as both a “mythical place” and an avatar of Hammond, IN, “just a few miles upwind” of steel mills, oil refineries, and polluted rivers.
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