Notes

The Wet Collection

My thanks to Rebecca Newberry at the Science Museum of Minnesota.

Jeremiad of a Bad Drought Year

Section 2. Ezekiel 37:1–14.

Section 6. II Samuel 23:13–17.

Building a Funeral

I have changed the names in this essay.

The Rain Follows the Plow

Barbara Allen, Homesteading the High Desert (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1987). The coffee-cup anecdote comes from one of the oral histories in this book.

 

“Appendix A—Provisional Vascular Plant List, The Island ACEC/ RNA,” (The Native Plant Society of Oregon, Oregon State University, and Prineville District BLM, June 8, 1996).

 

Phil F. Brogan, East of the Cascades, L.K. Phillips, ed. (Portland, OR: Binfords and Mort, 1964).

 

Jill A. Chappel, and Dawn Mankowski, “History of the Cove Palisades State Park,” unpublished.

 

Alice Day Pratt, A Homesteader’s Portfolio, Introd. Molly Gloss (Corvallis, OR: Oregon State UP, 1993. First published in 1922 by Macmillan).

 

Thanks also to Steve Janiszewski, manager of the Cove Palisades State Park during my time there, and to Paul Patton, interpretive ranger at Smith Rock State Park, both of the Oregon State Parks and Recreation Department, and well-versed in knowledge of the High Desert.

Little White House

See Doris Kearns Goodwin’s excellent No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II for more about the Little White House. I took Eleanor’s anecdote about Eisenhower from this book.

Second-String

I have changed the names in this essay.

Ave Maria Grotto

Jeremiah 23:29.

In the Country of Rent and Tatter

Ecclesiastes 3:11.

 

Thanks also to Scott Stegenga, interpretive ranger at Table Rock State Park in Pickens, South Carolina, a perceptive and thoughtful teacher.

Three Relics

Song of Songs 8:6.

I Keep a Jar of Clay Beside My Bed

Judges 12:1–7.