{"id":8922,"date":"2014-01-01T14:02:07","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T19:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/creative.clemson.edu\/clemsonworld\/?p=8922"},"modified":"2014-01-01T14:02:07","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T19:02:07","slug":"alumni-writers-state-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/alumni-writers-state-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni writers in \u2018State of the Heart\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAn abandoned farm near Edgefield. An ancient bald cypress in Congaree National Park. A wildlife \u201cenchantment\u201d spot in Calhoun Falls State Park. Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge. Clemson\u2019s own Class of \u201939 Caboose Garden in the S.C. Botanical Garden.
\nAll are vivid places lodged in the minds of Clemson alumni writers.
\nThey\u2019re among an album of mental snapshots \u2014 places, people, history \u2014 in a collection by 36 S.C. writers on the places they love. The newly published State of the Heart<\/em> is edited by author A\u00efda Rogers with foreword by novelist Pat Conroy.
\nClemson wildlife ecology professor J. Drew Lanham \u201988, M \u201990, PhD \u201997 revisits the Edgefield farm of his youth and its decaying beauty, the place where he learned to value and respect the sometimes harsh patterns of nature. He\u2019s author of The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man\u2019s Love Affair with Nature<\/em> published by Milkweed Editions.
\nFormer S.C. Department of Natural Resources wildlife biologist John Cely \u201969, M \u201980 describes his first encounter with the great bald cypress in the Congaree National Park and the park\u2019s hardwood forest he\u2019d thought existed only in history books. He\u2019s a former land-protection director for the Congaree Land Trust and author of Cowassee Basin: the Green Heart of South Carolina<\/em>.
\nDirector of Erskine\u2019s Quality Enhancement Program and writing center, Shane Bradley M \u201907 remembers a no-frills camping trip with his four-year-old daughter in Calhoun Falls State Park, an experience that opened his eyes to nature\u2019s enchantment and began a priceless family tradition. He\u2019s author of Mourning Light<\/em> and The Power and the Glory<\/em>.
\nAward-winning novelist, poet, biographer and historian William Baldwin \u201966, M \u201968 recounts a project on the history of the great Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge, a conflicted effort as significant for its failures as for its successes. Among his many works is Unpainted South<\/em>, in collaboration with photographer Seldon B. Hill, a tribute to South Carolina\u2019s rural past.
\nFormer Clemson World editor Liz Newall \u201970 revisits the S.C. Botanical Garden at Clemson, a living preserve illustrated by nature and cultivated by countless faithful gardeners \u2014 where each visitor finds a bit of his or her own personal history. She\u2019s author of Why Sarah Ran Away with the Veterinarian<\/em> and other fiction and nonfiction.
\nClemson legends Frank Howard and Ben Robertson also make cameo appearances. State of the Heart is available through bookstores and online at www.sc.edu\/uscpress<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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