Lit of Place 9/16

Greetings everyone. Here is our reading assignment for next week:

"Great Plains" by Ian Frazier
"Atop the Mound" by William Least Heat-Moon

Both of these can be found in the first section of your reader. "Atop the Mound" came from Least Heat-Moon's book, PrairyErth, in which he explores the idea of creating a "deep map" of a place. What do you think he means by this? How do these essays/chapters relate to that idea (use specific examples where possible)?

We will meet at Lubbock Lake Landmark next week (click the link for a map). If you would like to ride a bike over there with me, I will be leaving from the front of the Honors College at 2 PM. It will take us about half an hour to ride, so everyone else can meet in the parking lot atop the hill at the Landmark at 2:30. Please let me know if you are riding so that I will know to wait for you.

Obed Hernandez-Gomez will be doing  the first class presentation.

I'd like to go ahead and start scheduling the class meetings/locations. Here are the dates that we will need to fill in:

Place as Home:
Sept 29
Oct 6, 13, 20

Place as Other:
Oct 27
Nov 3, 10, 24
Dec 1

We will have to double up on some of these days, so you might get together with a partner and choose a place you can present a story together. Also, if you'd like to present a story at Caprock Canyon on our field trip day (October 16th), we can accomodate that. Please be thinking about these dates and the locations/stories you'd like to choose, and be prepared to tell me on Wednesday of next week.

Cheers!