Our conversation this week is with Brent Martin - author, conservationist, educator, Executive Director of the Blue Ridge Bartram Trail Conservancy, 2022 Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award winner, and longtime beloved member of the Cowee community in Macon County, NC.
Listen to us talk about Brent writing a book on the wild and beautiful life of George Masa, William Bartram's story and what he can still teach us two centuries later, the vicissitudes of conservation work, seeing difference differently, finding common ground in the wild, nature and the numinous, and finding/maintaining hope as a member of a horrible species.
Location: Cowee School Arts and Heritage Center | Macon County, North Carolina.
Blue Ridge Bartram Trail Conservancy
Buy Brent's book! George Masa's Wild Vison: A Japanese Immigrant Imagines Western North Carolina
Brent Martin wins Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award
Mentioned in this episode, for you to explore:
Back of Beyond: A Horace Kephart Biography by George Ellison and Janet McCue
Mountain Fever by Tom Alexander
Grove Park Inn detention facility during World War II
The Heart of the Alleghanies; or, Western North Carolina by Ben Grosscup and Wilbur Zeigler
'The Mystery of George Masa' Documentary
The Alarka Institute and Expeditions
Audobon Society Disavows Racist and Slave-Owner Elisha Mitchell
General Winfield Scott begins the Trail of Tears, absolutely not a hero
Emerson's Nature and the Artists by Tyler Green
