Jamie Harrison on the Relationship Between Eating, Love, and Memory
January 14, 2021
When I finished my new novel this past endless winter and cleaned my desk, I found this note:
When you eat well, you’re eating memory Barry Hannah.
I probably put too much food in my novels, but food is what people do, at least my people. They think about it, and they talk while they’re eating it; it’s in their errands and the shape of a life’s story. Writing about it can be a dodge on a hard day; for a previous novel, set in 1905, I felt I had to spend days on the New York Public Library’s website staring at the Buttolph menu collection. Parts of a new novel,
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The U.S.-Mexico borderlands in Santa Cruz County are home to a wide range of wildlife, and a new study has counted nearly 100 different species in the local area that the researchers say are âunder imminent threatâ from the construction of new walls along the U.S-Mexico border.
The Tucson-based Sky Island Alliance and Sonora-based Naturalia A.C. placed dozens of trail cameras in six areas along the border between the Patagonia Mountains and the Huachuca Mountains earlier this year, according to a news release from SIA. After six months, the cameras had snapped millions of photos and detected 12,000 wildlife sightings in the sky island region.
Originally published on December 14, 2020 7:27 am
In the Coronado National Memorial where conquistador Francisco Vázquez de Coronado entered what is now Arizona contractors are pulverizing the wilderness in a rush to put up as many miles of border wall as possible before the Trump administration vacates Washington.
They re dynamiting mountainsides and bulldozing pristine desert for a barrier the incoming Biden administration is expected to cancel. Wow! This is almost like busy work they re doing, exclaims biologist Myles Traphagen as he drives his truck up to the construction staging area and beholds the destruction for the first time. He specializes on the Arizona borderlands for the Wildlands Network.
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Heavy equipment is clearing a path for the border wall next to Coronado National Forest in Southern Arizona. Mexico is on the left. John Kurc
In the Coronado National Memorial where conquistador Francisco Vázquez de Coronado entered what is now Arizona contractors are pulverizing the wilderness in a rush to put up as many miles of border wall as possible before the Trump administration vacates Washington.
They re dynamiting mountainsides and bulldozing pristine desert for a barrier the incoming Biden administration is expected to cancel. Wow! This is almost like busy work they re doing, exclaims biologist Myles Traphagen as he drives his truck up to the construction staging area and beholds the destruction for the first time. He specializes on the Arizona borderlands for the Wildlands Network.