Erika Howsare has been a C-VILLE contributor since 2002. Her first nonfiction book is The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with Our Wild Neighbors (2024), and she hosted a podcast miniseries called “If You See a Deer.” She teaches writing locally.
August 2011: Life on the edge
To get to the Meyer house, a few miles outside Scottsville, you drive narrow country roads that wind through rolling, open land. Cornfields glisten green as the road dips in and out of little patches of woods, and past small houses dwarfed by giant shade trees. Eventually, though, the bucolic landscape gives way, falling steeply […]