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Because The Muddiness Of Mud Must Be Uttered: A Personal Essay, Dorothy Ellen Palmer 2023 n/a

Because The Muddiness Of Mud Must Be Uttered: A Personal Essay, Dorothy Ellen Palmer

The Goose

"Because the Muddiness of Mud Must Be Uttered," by disabled senior writer Dorothy Ellen Palmer, is a personal, braided, nonfiction essay tracing how her access to and understanding of moving on land has been shaped by ableism, ageism, and the pandemic.


Reflections From A Maternity Leave: The Complex History Of Beaver Dam Flats And Refinery Park, Emily Ursuliak 2023 N/A

Reflections From A Maternity Leave: The Complex History Of Beaver Dam Flats And Refinery Park, Emily Ursuliak

The Goose

A personal essay reflecting on my relationship with Refinery Park and Beaver Dam Flats in light of its complex history.


Falling Into Action, Kent Hoffman 2023 n/a

Falling Into Action, Kent Hoffman

The Goose

Kent Hoffman explores human movement, his own mobility, and how it influences the way he moves on land. This personal essay, told through the lens of disability and accessibility, outlines his experience of living with Becker muscular dystrophy. Hoffman's approach to walking and mobility is heavily influenced by a fear of falling. As his mobility is changing, he's adapting and seeking out new ways to move on land. Different modes of mobility determine the way we experience personal movement, but accessibility determines who is welcome in spaces in the first place. Accessibility in the form of providing equal access is …


Surface Tension, Kerry Ryan 2023 University of Winnipeg

Surface Tension, Kerry Ryan

The Goose

"Surface Tension" is a piece of creative nonfiction by Kerry Ryan.


When A Saunter Starts To Taunt Her: Exploring The Outdoors With Disabilities, Jessica Cory 2023 Western Carolina University

When A Saunter Starts To Taunt Her: Exploring The Outdoors With Disabilities, Jessica Cory

The Goose

This first-person creative nonfiction piece examines engaging with the outdoors, primarily through walking and hiking, while struggling with diagnoses of Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos (hEDS) and Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS). The author also considers how growing up with a parent whose disabilities made it more difficult to enjoy hikes impacted her own perception of the ableism inherent in the design, architecture, and infrastructure of many state and local parks. The author discusses the importance and struggle of teaching environmental literature through the lens of Disability Studies and advocates both for visibility as well as concrete changes to make hiking and sauntering …


On Foot, dee Hobsbawn-Smith 2023 alumna, University of Saskatchewan

On Foot, Dee Hobsbawn-Smith

The Goose

“On Foot” is an interdisciplinary examination of the importance of walking and running to the creative life. It is primarily a personal essay braided together with free verse poetry and a small proportion of inquiry into a few famous thinkers and writers who walked regularly. The essay traces a serious foot injury and the effects of that trauma, coupled with the threat of loss of sight, on a writer with a long history of walking and running as part of their creative process. The five poems unspool the sights and sounds of the natural rural world where they walk daily, …


Co-Editors Notes: Moving On Land? Choose Your Instrument, Tanis MacDonald, Ariel Gordon 2023 Wilfrid Laurier University

Co-Editors Notes: Moving On Land? Choose Your Instrument, Tanis Macdonald, Ariel Gordon

The Goose

Editorial Introduction to The Goose Volume 20, Issue 1 (2023).


Baby Steps, Amy Neufeld 2023 Wilfrid Laurier University

Baby Steps, Amy Neufeld

The Goose

A creative non-fiction piece about childbirth and walking, situating the self and the new child, and climate anxiety and fear for the future.


Before Showtime, Amy Kaler 2023 University of Alberta

Before Showtime, Amy Kaler

The Goose

In this piece of creative nonfiction, I reflect on the experience of having time on my hands in peri-urban spaces that are characterized by transience, liminality, and contingency, while waiting for performance time at youth cheerleading competitions. I describe walking around these places, specifically Las Vegas and Abbotsford (BC). I connect my experience to other accounts of aimless wandering, such as the "derive" of psychogeography, and note the ways in which the exercises of power and potential world-ending catastrophe are present, but latent, in these landscapes. In particular, I consider the historic cold-war threat of a nuclear bomb as well …


Still Life With Light Polllution, Todd Davis 2023 Dartmouth College

Still Life With Light Polllution, Todd Davis

Appalachia

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Accident Report, Eric Colburn 2023 Dartmouth College

Accident Report, Eric Colburn

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Tenting On Mount Morgan, Marcyn Del Clements 2023 Dartmouth College

Tenting On Mount Morgan, Marcyn Del Clements

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Hailstorm In Water Canyon, Robin Chapman 2023 Dartmouth College

Hailstorm In Water Canyon, Robin Chapman

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Government Peak, Trail Crew, August, Russ Capaldi 2023 Dartmouth College

Government Peak, Trail Crew, August, Russ Capaldi

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Red-Eyed Vireo At Work, Polly Brown 2023 Dartmouth College

Red-Eyed Vireo At Work, Polly Brown

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


A Peak Ahead: The Engines Of Adventure: What Compels People To Go, Christine Woodside 2023 Dartmouth College

A Peak Ahead: The Engines Of Adventure: What Compels People To Go, Christine Woodside

Appalachia

No abstract provided.


Books And Media, 2023 Dartmouth College

Books And Media

Appalachia

Reviews of: White Mountain Guide: AMC's Comprehensive Guide to Hiking Trails in the White Mountain National Forest, 31st edition, compiled and edited by Ken MacGray and Steven D. Smith; The World Atlas of Trees and Forests: Exploring Earth's Forest Ecosystems, by Herman Shugart, Peter White, Sassan Saatchi, and Jérôme Chave; Conversations with Birds, by Priyanka Kumar; Hidden Mountains: Survival and Reckoning After a Climb Gone Wrong, by Michael Wejchert; Lost in the Valley of Death: A Story of Obsession and Danger in the Himalayas, by Harley Rustad; Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We …


Skyline Sketch, 2023 Dartmouth College

Skyline Sketch

Appalachia

Hiking alone to and from Lonesome Lake Hut above Franconia Notch challenges a woman’s sense of time and strength.


News And Notes, 2023 Dartmouth College

News And Notes

Appalachia

Nicole Zussman appointed president and CEO of the Appalachian Mountain Club. Bears close U.S. Forest Service’s busy Hancock Campground in New Hampshire.


In Memoriam, 2023 Dartmouth College

In Memoriam

Appalachia

An obituary of former Appalachian Mountain Club President Charles Burnham, who was instrumental in negotiating matters related to the Highland Center.


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