A Place on the Glacial Till: Time, Land, and Nature Within an American Town

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It was once one of Thoreau’s great rules of life that any pond, or lake, or stream accommodates the reflections of the entire world within it–that one can see and know and feel more at one’s own doorstep than hurried travels will ever reveal in the far corners of the earth. A place for sensing the wonder of the world may well be any place, for all have shared a common journey that has made the earth our home. To listen from any spot is to hear the quiet echoes of a billion cycles around the sun.
In A Place on the Glacial Till, Thomas Fairchild Sherman writes about the history of the life and land around his long-time home in Oberlin, Ohio, offering a quiet message that speaks to us wherever we are: that every one time and nature abide within the rocks and soil, with connections, beauty, and meaning as deep as history and as broad as human understanding. The area surrounding Oberlin has a wealthy and varied past, and Sherman weaves together old and new findings from geology, archeology, and ecology to remind us of its elemental roots. Over the millennia this region of north central Ohio has been a barren, glacier-covered land mass; a sea bed teeming with marine life; the hometown of the Adena, Hopewell, and Erie peoples; part of the Connecticut Western Reserve; and the home of a small, distinguished college dedicated to music and the arts and sciences. The land today holds the entire wildernesses of its past, and the entire dreams and aspirations of those who have lived upon it.
Harking back to the meditative prose of Annie Dillard and the environmental writing of John McPhee, A Place on the Glacial Till recalls a multitude of studies of time and nature and joins them in a new appreciation of the land and its meaning for our lives.

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