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.
This week, we have a lot of local stories that ultimately come back to waste.
The trip wasn’t meant to be a tour of coalfields, but it did wind up causing a lot of thought.
It’s time to sit like a lump in your chair, and catch up on your reading.
Just for a few days this week, you can go to The Bridge and see a top-shelf collection of largely local art.
If you’re looking for some ideas to pack your Wednesday with eco-friendliness, look no further.
If you are complaining about the rain, please stop and reexamine your thinking.
How a disposable culture conspires to cause an unnecessary purchase.
When we were young and studied science in textbooks, there was a clarity to the images on the pages: cells dividing, electrons spinning. The facts of the world seemed just that—facts. What Dean Dass’ new show examines is the idea that clarity and facts are illusions, or at least mutable. Taking old textbook pages, scanning […]
Count me among the pleased by 53,000 acres newly protected in the Virginia Ridge and Valley Act.