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Exploration 26 | Journey in Place | Memorial
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Exploration 26 | Journey in Place | Memorial

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Well, it has to be done at some point. This week seems as good a time as any.

Environmental and rural historian Jack Temple Kirby was concerned about the end of rural-agricultural life in the south, his region of study. He suggested that the “appropriate mode of observation concerning the contemporary rural South is the memorial.”

Perhaps, just…

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