Where Are Our Medicine Bundles?
Rent from DeepDyve- Where Are Our Medicine Bundles?
In what museum? Buried in a landfill? Floating in space in a satellite? In a safe deposit box of a bank in New York City? Was it Lost on a Greyhound bus on the way to Detroit? Packaged and sold in breakfast cereal? Thrown out the window of a pick-up truck? Where are our elders? Rocking on the porch? In a nursing home? In a trailer in Florida? Homeless on the streets? Playing bingo Friday night? In prison? Where have our communities gone? Stripped away by a D-9 dozer? Moved to free export zones? Covered over by the shopping mall? How do we find our bundles? Reclaim our elders? Rebuild our communities? [End Page 98]
Helen M. Lewis has published here since 1993. She is the subject of a biography titled Helen Matthews Lewis: Living Social Justice in Appalachia (2012) and the co-author of three important books about Appalachia. Because of her reputation as a leading regional activist, the Appalachian Studies Association has named its annual service award after her. A native of Georgia, she lives in the ElderSpirit Community in Abingdon, Virginia.
