Imaginings
stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, and other imaginative accounts of the natural world
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Making Tracks: Lisa Pettibone
In the “Making Tracks†series, RCC fellows and alumni present their experiences in environmental humanities, retracing the paths that led them to the Rachel Carson Center. For more information, please click here. By Lisa Pettibone I have had to justify my academic path to many people in numerous contexts on two continents. Moving from a…
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Making Tracks: Anitra Nelson
In the “Making Tracks†series, RCC fellows and alumni present their experiences in environmental humanities, retracing the paths that led them to the Rachel Carson Center. For more information, please click here. “Goolengook and Guernica†By Anitra Nelson In the Guernica of today’s universal threat from future climate change, environmental campaigners fight for light-bulb suns,…
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Making Tracks: Paul Sutter
In the “Making Tracks†series, RCC fellows and alumni present their experiences in environmental humanities, retracing the paths that led them to the Rachel Carson Center. For more information, please click here. By Paul Sutter There was nothing about my childhood that inclined me towards the environmental humanities—except, perhaps, the entire context in which I…
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Making Tracks: Franklin Ginn
In the “Making Tracks†series, RCC fellows and alumni present their experiences in environmental humanities, retracing the paths that led them to the Rachel Carson Center. For more information, please click here. By Franklin Ginn Failure lies behind the trappings of academic success: words unwritten, words sunk without trace, applications rejected, snubs both subtle and…
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Making Tracks: Paula Ungar
In the “Making Tracks†series, RCC fellows and alumni present their experiences in environmental humanities, retracing the paths that led them to the Rachel Carson Center. For more information, please click here. “Walking the Line between Worlds†By Paula Ungar The first thing I wrote of which I have clear memory is a short verse…
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Making Tracks: Yan Gao
In the “Making Tracks†series, RCC fellows and alumni present their experiences in environmental humanities, retracing the paths that led them to the Rachel Carson Center. For more information, please click here. “Watermarks on My Path†By Yan Gao When I started writing this article, my home city, Wuhan—situated at the confluence of the Yangzi…
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Making Tracks: Robert Wilson
In the “Making Tracks†series, RCC fellows and alumni present their experiences in environmental humanities, retracing the paths that led them to the Rachel Carson Center. For more information, please click here. “Scholar Activist?†By Robert Wilson My journey to the Rachel Carson Center began five years ago in a hot, stifling Washington, DC jail…
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Making Tracks: Alan MacEachern
In the “Making Tracks†series, RCC fellows and alumni present their experiences in environmental humanities, retracing the paths that led them to the Rachel Carson Center. For more information, please click here. “Albrecht and Alan at the Alte†By Alan MacEachern In retrospect, mine was the least dissolute of dissolute youths. But spending post-undergraduate time…
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Making Tracks: Ernst Langthaler
In the “Making Tracks†series, RCC fellows and alumni present their experiences in environmental humanities, retracing the paths that led them to the Rachel Carson Center. For more information, please click here. By Ernst Langthaler “A Pile of Stones in the Midst of a Meadow†I grew up in a remote village of about 2,000…