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Prairyerth
by William Least Heat-Moon
7 stars.
A deep map of Chase County, east central Kansas, on the turnpike halfway between Kansas City and Wichita, leading edge pushing west of the prairie, from the trees. I grew up 10miles from the eastern county line, a straight line off the edge of the square miles grid across the prairie to Matfield Green. Chase County is a part of my early life, and the prairie and hills he talks about are absolutely my happy place. The zen space where the wind lets you catch your breath. The most still moments I can ever remember inside myself are laying on my back in the grasses and looking at the sky.
I don't know anything about William Least Heat Moon. Only that I checked this book out from the library, and about 150pages in had to go buy my own copy, partly bc I felt bad for dog-earing so many library pages, and partly because I need to own it for my very own forever. It is a memoir of a place, and a people, and an ecosystem, and a way of life. It is true, not as in factual (that, too) but as an arrow is true.
I wish I knew more people like him in Kansas, and maybe I could've stayed. I am so sad this book can't go on forever.
A deep map of Chase County, east central Kansas, on the turnpike halfway between Kansas City and Wichita, leading edge pushing west of the prairie, from the trees. I grew up 10miles from the eastern county line, a straight line off the edge of the square miles grid across the prairie to Matfield Green. Chase County is a part of my early life, and the prairie and hills he talks about are absolutely my happy place. The zen space where the wind lets you catch your breath. The most still moments I can ever remember inside myself are laying on my back in the grasses and looking at the sky.
I don't know anything about William Least Heat Moon. Only that I checked this book out from the library, and about 150pages in had to go buy my own copy, partly bc I felt bad for dog-earing so many library pages, and partly because I need to own it for my very own forever. It is a memoir of a place, and a people, and an ecosystem, and a way of life. It is true, not as in factual (that, too) but as an arrow is true.
I wish I knew more people like him in Kansas, and maybe I could've stayed. I am so sad this book can't go on forever.