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Autumn Pilgrimage in the Bighorns

Autumn Pilgrimage in the Bighorns

byThomas S. Bremer

Photo essay: a return to the Bighorn mountains in Wyoming for an autumn pilgrimage to the Medicine Wheel and a turning of seasons.

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Langston Hughes Slept Here

Langston Hughes Slept Here

byThomas S. Bremer

Springfield, Illinois, is a Lincoln-haunted town, and much of the old downtown has a Lincoln association of some sort or another. But more than Lincoln has happened there.

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Moonrise over Meeman-Shelby Forest

Moonrise over Meeman-Shelby Forest

byThomas S. Bremer

The moon rises over the forested horizon as we witness its appearance from the lake shore. How many moonrises have we seen across these waters?

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The Abundant Life of the Hoh Rain Forest

The Abundant Life of the Hoh Rain Forest

byThomas S. Bremer

The Hoh Rain Forest waits as a patient guide, a moss-embroidered forest of wisdom, lined with ferns and storied over with trees older than memory.

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The unheard songs of Saddleback Mountain

The unheard songs of Saddleback Mountain

byThomas S. Bremer

Saddleback Mountain stands silent, motionless, stoic above frantic, superficial California as a reminder that some remnant of wildness persists beyond the freeways and strip malls.

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The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River

The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone River

byThomas S. Bremer

The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone is unlike any other canyon in color, charm, in picturesque calendar-ready beauty, wild and frightening.

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Morning on the Riverwalk along the San Antonio River

Morning on the Riverwalk along the San Antonio River

byThomas S. Bremer

I greet the day with delight in the cool air of dawn. I am happily surprised to find a sliver of solitude along the San Antonio riverwalk.

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American Sacred Space in the Twenty-first Century

American Sacred Space in the Twenty-first Century

byThomas S. Bremer

Americans have always been ambivalent about the sacredness of their land, which has made American sacred space a story of perpetual conflict.

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Trekking through the Yellowstone “Museum of Wonders”

Trekking through the Yellowstone “Museum of Wonders”

byThomas S. Bremer

Wonder-Land Illustrated by Harry J. Norton, published in 1873, was one of the first tourbooks recounting the Yellowstone experience for a general audience.

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A Civilized Savagery: Rev. Stanley’s ruminations on his way to Yellowstone

A Civilized Savagery: Rev. Stanley’s ruminations on his way to Yellowstone

byThomas S. Bremer

Rev. Edwin J. Stanley’s 1873 tour of Yellowstone made him a witness to “the scepter of the irrepressible white man” in the divine right of Manifest Destiny.

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Holy Dirt: Review of The Healing Power of the Santuario de Chimayó

Holy Dirt: Review of The Healing Power of the Santuario de Chimayó

byThomas S. Bremer

Review of “The Healing Power of the Santuario de Chimayó: America’s Miraculous Church” by Brett Hendrickson.

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Acadia National Park: A Soul and Spirit Stretching Place

Acadia National Park: A Soul and Spirit Stretching Place

byThomas S. Bremer

The current issue of Chebacco focuses on the history of religion on Maine’s largest island and includes my essay on religion in Acadia National Park.

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