Stephen Longmire is a landscape photographer and writer whose work focuses on the politics and history of place. His previous book, Keeping Time in Sag Harbor, explores the effects of the recent real estate boom on his hometown of Sag Harbor, New York. His photographs are in the permanent collections of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the National Park Service, and Grinnell College's Faulconer Gallery, among other museums. He has taught the history and practice of photography at Georgetown University and Columbia College Chicago, and currently teaches creative writing at Yale University.
This moving and sensitive photo essay captures both the beauty of
Rochester Cemetery - one of the finest surviving prairie savannas
in the whole United States - and its powerful meaning to the people
of this tiny township in eastern Iowa as the resting place of their
ancestors."" - Robert F. Sayre, editor of Recovering the
Prairie
""There are places in our landscapes, and in our experience, where
we have unique opportunities to connect - across generations
and boundary lines, across perspectives and ideas. Rochester
Cemetery, tucked away quietly within the great but vanquished
landscape of the American tallgrass prairie, is one of those
special places. Through his words and images, Stephen Longmire
takes us to Rochester Cemetery. We come to see that, even if we
never visit this rare piece of native Iowa, of native America,
something deep inside us still rests, and grows, and renews itself
there."" - Curt Meine, author of Aldo Leopold: His Life and Work
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