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Keen Insights
American the Beautiful. The New Objectivists. Tough on Rudy. Man bites liberal. Evolution now. Barron Thomas, Propheteer. Plus more.
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AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
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Re: Bill Croke’s
Don’t Go
Hiking With Captain Pain
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p>I have spent most of the past 12 years teaching in the Middle
East, in universities in Ankara and Istanbul, Turkey, and now
Amman, Jordan. Bill Croke’s article nearly brought me to tears,
with the beauty of not only his prose, but of the place names
themselves: “Copper Lakes near Sunlight Basin,” “Painter Creek,”
and his final description of Grinnell Meadows. I was filled with a
wave of nostalgia and longing for my own nation, and my own
country, South Carolina, and the Congaree Swamp, Lake Jocassee, and
the Foothills Trails. I can only say thank you, and ask for more of
the same, for it will be at least three years before I will see
those places again.
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—
Michael Jasper
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Please pass on my appreciation to Bill for his wonderful articles
about the real west, i.e., Montana, Wyoming and Idaho. Having grown
up in Montana I really appreciate his keen insights to people and
their surroundings.
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—
Tom Bullock
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West Covina, California
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