Land and Books

The Library of Congress has a new exhibition, Language of the Land: Journeys into Literary America, and the website version features four regions, Northeast, South, Midwest, and West.



For those who still live in the Midwest, or miss it a little, or don't miss it at all, I urge you to take a look at the images and texts gathered to celebrate that chunk of our mid-continent.



The pictures shown here are some I took on a June visit to southwest Wisconsin, the Uplands or Driftless Region. The country church was the site of a Welsh chapel sing, where the congregation sang in Welsh and in four-part harmony.