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PLACES TO GO

Snake River Fur Post, Pine City, Minnesota

Forest History Center, Grand Rapids, Minnesota

Grant House Hotel & Restaurant, Rush City, Minnesota (currently closed and for sale)

St. Croix Boom Site, Stillwater, Minnesota

Mill City Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Hinckley Fire Museum, Hinckley, Minnesota

Tillers International, Scotts, Michigan

Dream Acres, Wycoff, Minnesota

Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, Chanhassen, Minnesota

Marjorie McNeely Conservatory at Como Park, St. Paul, Minnesota
See the fig tree in the north garden.

 

GROUPS TO SUPPORT

Land Stewardship Project

Minnesota Women's Woodland Network

My Minnesota Woods

Friends of Minnesota Barns

 

BOOKS TO READ

The First Eden: The Mediterranean World and Man. David Attenborough. Little, Brown & Co., 1987.

Forests: The Shadow of Civilization. Robert Pogue Harrison. University of Chicago Press, 1992.

The Necessity for Ruins and Other Topics. J. B. Jackson. University of Massachusetts Press, 1980.

The Poetics of Space. Gaston de Bachelard. Universitaires de France, 1958.

Resurrecting the Granary of Rome: Environmental History and French Colonial Expansion in North Africa. Diana K. Davis. University of Ohio Press, 2007.

Turn Here Sweet Corn. Atina Diffley. University of Minnesota Press, 2012.

The Unsettling of America. Wendell Berry. Sierra Club Books, 1976.

The White Pine Industry in Minnesota: A History. Agnes M. Larson. University of Minnesota Press, 1949, 2007.

 

Personal Histories About Place

Ecology of a Cracker Childhood. Janisse Ray. Milkweed Editions, 2000.

The Florist's Daughter. Patricia Hampl. Harcourt, 2007.

Here and Nowhere Else. Jane Brox. Beacon Press, 1995.

Lark Rise to Candleford. Flora Thompson. Novels published as a trilogy, 1945.

The Little Mountain. Elias Khoury. 1977.

Refuge: An Unnatural History of a Family and Place. Terry Tempest Williams. Pantheon Books, 1991.

A Romantic Education. Patricia Hampl. Houghton Mifflin, 1981; revised with a new afterword, W.W. Norton, 1992.

The Witness of Combines. Kent Meyers. University of Minnesota Press, 1998.

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