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
Minnesota Women's Woodland Network
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.