Milestones - June 2026

A snapshot of what is currently on the desk in the studio.

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Reading

• A history of rural courthouses in the early 20th century
• Essays on memory and place in American life
• A biography of a public figure in the American South

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Thinking About

How institutions shape a community’s sense of continuity when everything around them changes slowly over time.

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Writing

Drafting notes for a piece on how small civic spaces become repositories of personal and collective memory.

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Listening

An interview with a historian discussing oral history and the limits of archival record.

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Noted This Week

A photograph of a county courthouse from 1912, showing how little the physical structure has changed compared to the surrounding town.

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Currently Returning To

The idea that “place” is less about geography than repetition—what gets said, remembered, and preserved in ordinary spaces.

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Note

This page is a working snapshot of current interests and materials in use. Items listed here are not endorsements or recommendations, but references and points of engagement within ongoing creative and intellectual work.