In Earshot of Water: Notes from the Columbia Plateau

Acknowledgments

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Acknowledgments Grateful acknowledgment is made to the editors of these journals for first publishing the following essays: “Genius Loci” in Sewanee Review ; “High Country” in Brevity; “In the Shadow of the Government’s Blind Eye” in Organization and Environment, published by Sage/Society Publications, http://online.sagepub.com; “Magpie in the Window” in Memoir (and); “Under the Sign of Aries” in North Dakota Quarterly; and “Walker Creek” (originally published as “Living the Land”) in Weber Studies. My thanks to Eastern Washington University and its Northwest Institute for Advanced Study for three summer indulgences, during which time many of these essays were written; appreciation especially for support, editorial and otherwise, from EWU colleagues Sam Ligon , Dana Elder, and Larry Kiser. Also I wish to thank John Balaban, Michael Branch, Mary Clearman Blew, Annie Dillard, Michael Frome, Christopher Howell, Derrick Jensen, John Keeble, William Kittredge, Natalie Kusz, Carrie Lipe, Kathleen Dean Moore, Annie Oakes, Robert Michael Pyle, Pattiann Rogers, Sharman Apt Russell, and Gary Snyder—who helped in ways they might not even know. Finally, to my wife and children, for the gifts of time they gave unstintingly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . sightlinebooks The Iowa Series in Literary Nonfiction The Men in My Country marilyn abildskov Shadow Girl: A Memoir of Attachment deb abramson Embalming Mom: Essays in Life janet burroway Family Bible melissa j. delbridge Dream Not of Other Worlds: Teaching in a Segregated Elementary School, 1970 huston diehl Fauna and Flora, Earth and Sky: Brushes with Nature’s Wisdom trudy dittmar Little Big World: Collecting Louis Marx and the American Fifties jeffrey hammond In Defense of Nature john hay Letters to Kate: Life after Life carl h. klaus The Great Chain of Life joseph wood krutch Essays of Elia charles lamb The Body of Brooklyn david lazar In Earshot of Water: Notes from the Columbia Plateau paul lindholdt No Such Country: Essays toward Home elmar lueth Grammar Lessons: Translating a Life in Spain michele morano Currency of the Heart: A Year of Investing, Death, Work, and Coins donald r. nichols Return to Warden’s Grove: Science, Desire, and the Lives of Sparrows christopher norment Oppenheimer Is Watching Me: A Memoir jeff porter Great Expectation: A Father’s Diary dan roche Memoirs of a Revolutionary victor serge The Harvard Black Rock Forest george w. s. trow ...