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Author: GLWC
Views from the Lighthouse
For over a century, the beacon at Tawas Lighthouse guided ships on Lake Huron. During its operation, the light was manned–and, once, womanned–by lightkeepers who kept an often lonely vigil in weather that ranged from idyllic to deadly. Now a historical site maintained by Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources, the Tawas Lighthouse serves another purpose:…
GLWC Pub News: Meera Kumar “Beyond the Promises of Growth”
Excerpt: At the farm, I’ve seen plants grow. A few days ago, I smoothed my fingers over thousands of black scallion seeds with a funky smell at the bottom of a glass container; the seeds rolled around in small yet persistent waves of water harvested from a pump on the farm. They stuck to my…
Field Note: Into the Water for Citizen Science
Co-written by GLWC ’22. Early on a frigid January Saturday, we drove up and down Walsh Road three times, searching the snow-dusted, mile-long dirt road for our collaborators, and enough space to park the car. Most of our friends were still warm in bed recovering from a long week of classes or the previous…
GLWC Pub News: Rachel McKimmy in Canary Lit: A Journal of the Environmental Crisis
“Stone Fly” by Rachel McKimmy, winner of a Hopwood Prize in Nonfiction, appears in the Winter 2021/2022 issue of Canary Lit. Outtake: There is a small stream with an old bridge over it, a bridge which is rotting through. On the ground are several inches of snow. Breath puffs out from between cold-chapped lips, chilled…
GLWC 2020 Writers Rachel McKimmy and Ben Biber win Hopwood Writing Awards
From the Hopwood Awards website: Since 1931, the Hopwood Awards Program has given almost 5000 awards to approximately 3300 writers, for a total of $5,936,635 in prize winnings (and growing)….The Hopwood Awards Program has been credited with launching many student writers’ careers in the arts, and in attracting already-talented writers to attend the University of…
GLWC Pub News: Kathryn Sullivan in the Michigan Daily
A world needing respite A World Needing Respite The Michigan Daily, April 7, 2021 By Kathryn Sullivan The two stories started the same: An onslaught of warnings were ignored — surely the media was drastically blowing a problem out of proportion. Worries were minimized. Fears were ignored. Some experts were scorned by those in…
GLWC Pub News: Rachel McKimmy in the Michigan Daily
Immersion writing during a pandemic: A journey of self-discovery “Immersion Writing During a Pandemic: A Journey of Self-Discovery” The Michigan Daily, March 7, 2021 By Rachel McKimmy, GLWC ’20 It was Jan. 8, 2020, the first day of class for the University of Michigan’s winter semester. Around 1 p.m., I was on my way…
Field Note: Trials and Tribulations at Barton Dam
By Kianna Marquez After cruising the twists and turns of Huron River Drive, I parked my car in Barton Park’s dirt lot. I collected the tools for this expedition—my phone, waterproof camera (with its orange Kodak floatie), journal, face mask, water bottle and fanny pack—and stood up out of the car. Immediately, I stiffened in…
GLWC Pub News: Miriam Saperstein in Jewish Currents
https://jewishcurrents.org/a-strike-against-despair/ I joined a group of about 15 students, many of them striking grad students; we all signed in, for the purposes of contact tracing. For three hours, we marched in a wide circle, chanting and dancing and whistling and shouting, each of us at least six feet apart. My glasses foggy, and my…