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Walking Seasonal Roads - Reflections on a Dwelling Place (Hardcover, New)
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Walking Seasonal Roads - Reflections on a Dwelling Place (Hardcover, New)
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Discovery Miles 3 790
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Seasonal roads are defined as one-lane dirt roads not maintained
during the winter. They function as connectors linking farmers to
their fields, neighbors to neighbors, or two more well-traveled
roads to each other. Some access hunting lands and recreational
areas. Some pass by cemeteries, allowing people to visit and honor
their dead. They can be abandoned as people move and towns fade. In
every incarnation, the seasonal road touches the land in a gentler
way than do other roads. Having traveled nearly every seasonal road
in Steuben County, New York, Hood finds they provide the ideal
vantage to contemplate the meaning of place, offering intimate
contact with plant and wildlife and the beauty of a rural
landscape. Each road reveals how our land is used, how our land is
protected, and how environmental factors have impacted the land. As
a literary naturalist, Hood reflects on endangered species and
invasive species, as well as on issues of conservation and
sustainability. From state forests to potato fields, from
development along Keuka Lake to vineyards, from old family
cemeteries to logging sites, Walking Seasonal Roads is a
celebration and an honoring of the rural and the regionalism of
place, illustrating the ways we connect to our home and to each
other.
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