When I was a teenager, my dad moved into a small house out in the country. It wasn’t much of a house. A single-story concrete-block house in Gandy's Cove. The kind of house you could pass a hundred times without ever wondering who lived there. Not long after he moved in, one of the neighbors … Continue reading The House That Homer Built
Tag: Historical Memory
What We Rename and What Remains
Names fascinate me because they promise clarity while quietly concealing continuity. A new label suggests a new reality, yet the older structure often remains intact beneath the paint. Watching institutions rename themselves feels a bit like standing on a riverbank; the surface moves quickly, but the current below keeps its direction. The renewed use of … Continue reading What We Rename and What Remains
The damage of a "Trail of Fears"
In previous posts I've made mention of my purported Cherokee ancestry, so I'll not revisit those claims, but I want to focus on misguided use of term "Trail of Fears" with a recent announcement1 from my town as an example: Let me caveat this by stating that I do not believe that the term is used with … Continue reading The damage of a "Trail of Fears"
