Walking Toward Moosalamoo

Walking Toward Moosalamoo is a story of humans and the earth, as well as being a chronicle of three summers spent hiking, to a place called Mount Moosalamoo, in the Champlain Valley of Vermont. At bottom, it is an environmental inquiry into the dialog between humans and the land, one concerned with our current environmental crises, but also with the historical and cultural terrain of New England-its narrative geography. Along the way, Carlson muses on the ways we speak of the...
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Walking Toward Moosalamoo is a story of humans and the earth, as well as being a chronicle of three summers spent hiking, to a place called Mount Moosalamoo, in the Champlain Valley of Vermont. At bottom, it is an environmental inquiry into the dialog between humans and the land, one concerned with our current environmental crises, but also with the historical and cultural terrain of New England-its narrative geography. Along the way, Carlson muses on the ways we speak of the earth-how we often wound it with our words, but also how we limit our own freedom, and wound ourselves, by misrepresenting our storied relationship with the land that supports all our lives. This is an environmental and political argument for listening to the earth, but also one for listening to each other. "Moosalamoo" is more metaphor than mountain, then, and the destination is a new story, not a peak in the Green Mountains.