Table of Contents I. Introduction 1. Writing Place Jennifer Sinor II. Here 2. Six Kinds of Rain: Searching for a Place in the Academy Kathleen Dean Moore and Erin E. Moore 3. The Work the Landscape Calls Us To; Michael Sowder 4. Valley Language Diana Garcia 5. What I Learned from the Campus Plumber Charles Bergman 6. M-I-Crooked Letter-Crooked Letter Katherine Fischer 7. On Frogs, Poems, and Teaching at a Rural Community College Se'n W. Henne III. There 8. Levittown Breeds Anarchists! Film at 11:00 Kathryn T. Flannery 9. Living in a Transformed Desert Mitsuye Yamada 10. A More Fortunate Destiny Jayne Brim Box 11. Imagined Vietnams Charles Waugh IV. Everywhere 12. Teaching on Stolen Ground Deborah A. Miranda 13. The Blind Teaching the Blind: The Academic as Naturalist, or Not Robert Michael Pyle 14. Where Are You From? Lee Torda V. In Between 15. Going Away to Think Scott Slovic 16. Fronteriza Consciousness: The Site and Language of the Academy and of Life Norma Elia Cant' 17. Bones of Summer Mary Clearman Blew; 18. Singing, Speaking, and Seeing a World Janice M. Gould 19. Making Places Work: Felt Sense, Identity, and Teaching Jeffrey M. Buchanan VI. Coda 20. Running in Place: The Personal at Work, in Motion, on Campus, and in the Neighborhood Rona Kaufman Contributors