Author : Colin Rafferty
Release : 2016-02-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 133/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Hallow This Ground by : Colin Rafferty
Download or read book Hallow This Ground written by Colin Rafferty. This book was released on 2016-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning outside the boarded-up windows of Columbine High School and ending almost twelve years later on the fields of Shiloh National Military Park, Hallow This Ground revolves around monuments and memorials—physical structures that mark the intersection of time and place. In the ways they invite us to interact with them, these sites teach us to recognize our ties to the past. Colin Rafferty explores places as familiar as his hometown of Kansas City and as alien as the concentration camps of Poland in an attempt to understand not only our common histories, but also his own past, present, and future. Rafferty blends the travel essay with the lyric, the memoir with the analytic, in this meditation on the ways personal histories intersect with History, and how those intersections affect the way we understand and interact with Place.