While copying her mother's recipes, Victoria Hampton recalls her childhood and adolescence in the 1940s and 1950s and re-lives the year that changed her life and the lives of those around her forever. This is a story about family secrets and how it is possible to grow stronger through adversity.
But through the lens of this one tree, it becomes immediate and intimate. In Witness Tree, environmental reporter Lynda V. Mapes takes us through her year living with one red oak at the Harvard Forest.
Multi-generational lesbian love story set in both modern and Civil War era Atlanta.
When a skeletal foot slips from the confines of a downed tree, Foley family secrets whisper like thistle in the wind, enticing, teasing, and daring the truth to come forth.
The photographs in Living Witness premiered at the groundbreaking of the Mollie Steves Zachry Texas Arboretum at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.
This highly original work innovates inside the lineage of great poets including W.S. Merwin, whose poem titles are repurposed as frames and mirrors for the text, stitching past and present in complex dialogue.
When Anna Grayson dies and leaves her estate to a niece she has never met, it opens the window on a family saga that dates back to the civil war.
When a rare witness tree--a 150-year-old white oak rooted near Gettysburg battleground--falls during a storm, a diary and an unmarked grave are found under its roots.
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The Witness Tree
When young Oliver Logan tragically loses his mom, he moves into the home of his aunt and uncle.