The Long Way Home

by Herwig, Timothy A

• ISBN13: 9781913743604
• ISBN10: 1913743608
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2022-11-30
• Publisher: Triarchy Press Ltd

Summary

The Long Way Home is a closely observed account of the author's actual 5-week, 500-mile walk from Chicago to Minneapolis and parallel journey through the memories of his traumatic and painful life as a young man. His meetings with people and places along the journey open up the history, culture, and experience of this part of the Midwest in a way that will captivate any interested reader.

Author Biography

Tim Herwig is a writer, performer, teacher, and student of literature and the humanities. As a performing artist, he was interested in how a poet or writer transforms an image into metaphor. He imagined a physical space or moment of time between the formation of a metaphor and when a writer or poet writes it on a piece of paper or taps it out on a keyboard. He also worked for many years in the social/economic justice field of community development, for a bank and a federal regulatory agency.

Table of Contents

Prologue Week One A Dream The Long Road Ahead “ A Steel Slab in a Prison Cell” The Gift of a Broken Heart Week Two Remembering the Dead North Grove Township, Ogle County, Illinois The Wind Time Emerald Acres Campground Alone Paradise Cove Argyle, Wisconsin The Mud Branch Brewery Creek Local The Unplanned Can Be a Blessing Week Three Silence Irish Hollow Water, Please Strays Crowley Spring Grace Guardian Angels Mount Hosmer Week Four The Valley of the Upper Iowa Waterloo Workshop: Make a Life Not a Living Trolls Riceford, Minnesota Platt Deutsch Harmony, Minnesota Forestville State Park Alone in a Strange House Broken Glass Bohemian National Cemetery Albert Lea Lake Stinks The Elks Club The Long Way Home No Longer There . . . Remembering Kaleidoscope Week Five Thoreau’ s Cabin The Wind and the Rain The World Goes Round “ I Heard There Was a Party… ” Kathy