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Tracing memory threads Lauret Edith Savoy’s life and work: unearthing what is buried, re-membering what is fragmented, shattered, eroded. A woman of African American, Euro-American, and Native American heritage, she writes about the stories we tell of the American land’s origins and the stories we tell of ourselves in this land. Her books include Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape; The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity and the Natural World; Bedrock: Writers on the Wonders of Geology; and Living with the Changing California Coast. She is a professor of environmental studies and geology at Mount Holyoke College, a photographer, and pilot. Winner of Mount Holyoke’s Distinguished Teaching Award, Lauret has also held fel ...more

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Beyond Granite: Pulling Together Convening – Legacies and Futures of the National Mall

Beyond Granite: Pulling Together presents a dynamic new series of installations designed to create a more inclusive, equitable, and representative commemorative landscape on the National Mall. The Beyond Granite initiative is led by the Trust for the National Mall in partnership with the National Capital Planning Commission and the National Park Service, and is funded by the Mellon Foundation.

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Average rating: 4.09 · 1,483 ratings · 210 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	Trace: Memory, History, Race and the American Landscape 4.08 avg rating — 1,229 ratings — published 2015 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World by Alison Hawthorne Deming, Lauret Savoy (Editor) 4.09 avg rating — 192 ratings — published 2002 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bedrock: Writers on the Wonders of Geology by Lauret Savoy (Editor), Eldridge M. Moores (Editor), Gordon P. Eaton (Foreword) 4.15 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2006 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Facing Georgetown's History: A Reader on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation by Adam Rothman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Elsa Barraza Mendoza (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Lauret Savoy (Foreword) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Voice for Earth: American Writers Respond to the Earth Charter by Peter Blaze Corcoran (Editor), Homero Aridjis (Afterword), Terry Tempest Williams (Afterword) 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Living with the Changing California Coast by Gary B. Griggs (Editor), Lauret Savoy, Kiki Patsch 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2005 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Impermanent Earth: Environmental Writing from The Georgia Review (Georgia Review Books) by Douglas Carlson (Editor), Suzanne Paola (Contributor), Jerome F. Bump (Contributor) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Red Rock Testimony: Three Generations of Writers Speak on Behalf of Utah's Public Lands by Stephen Trimble (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Charles Wilkinson (Contributor), Simon Ortiz (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Names on the Land carries a sympathetic tone regarding Native peoples, but it is the stories of “those who followed” from Europe that form its core. What troubles me is how some readers embrace these namings as America’s history, “our” heritage, without asking if there might be other narratives, too. Stewart considers “the naming that was before history” in his first chapter, but not so much the importance of place-making in defining Indigenous traditions and identities in a storied land over time.”
― Lauret Savoy, Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape

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“By the age of five, I believed I was a child born of sun-lit Earth and deep blue sky. When I looked at my skin, I saw the color of dry land in Southern California and the Southwest. And when I looked at my veins, it seemed that sky flowed in them. I believed I was made of sky and of land. That was what anchored the child-me.”
― Lauret Savoy

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“Odysseus said, “I belong in the place of my departure and I belong in the place that is my destination”
― Lauret Savoy, Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape

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