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: William Bartram's Travels John Lane 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 'Luddite' Teens Don't Want Your Likes How Tom Petty Barely Held It Together on 'Echo'

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