Memory of Trees: A Daughter's Story of a Family Farm is coming soon from University of Minnesota Press! Every day, another detail is sorted out. Getting this website in running order is another one, and once again, I have friends to thank for help and support...right now, it's Becca and Kathy. Thank you!
This book has already had a very long life. It began as a search for understanding why...why place matters, why some people feel such a strong connection, why we hang on and why we let go. It became a way to stay connected to my family's century farm in the St. Croix Valley, to family members who stayed and others of us who moved away. Crossing continents and millennia, it's also a story of trees as our companions.
Now the book is beginning its life out of my hands. I look forward to sharing it at the launch on April 11.
So, what trees have been your companions?
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