Essay: A Tattoo of Place

Black and white photo of a group of around fifty people stand along the riverbank, watching a baptism happening within its waters.
Black and white photo of a group of around fifty people stand along the riverbank, watching a baptism happening within its waters.

Remembering the River People

Looking back, four years after the 2014 Elk River chemical spill There’s an old-time method I use for preserving trout. It’s a simple process — coating fresh fillets with coarse salt until the moisture is withdrawn and the flesh stiffens. Prior to the 1920s, salting of red-bellied speckled brook trout was […]

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