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After many years of limited commitments to people or places writer andnaturalist John Lane married in his late forties and settled down in hishometown of Spartanburg in the South Carolina piedmont. He his wife and twostepsons built a sustainable home in the woods near Lawsons Fork Creek. Soonafter settling in Lane pinpointed his location on a topographical map.Centering an old chipped saucer over his home he traced a circle one mile inradius and set out to explore the area.What follows from that simple act isa chronicle of Lanes deepening knowledge of the place where hell likelyfinish out his life. An accomplished hiker and paddler Lane discovers withina mile of his home a variety of coexistent landscapesancient and modernnatural and manmade. There is of course the creek with its granite shoalsfloodplain and surrounding woods. The circle also encompasses an eightthousandyearold cache of Native American artifacts graves of a dozen Britishsoldiers killed in 1780 an eighteenthcentury ironworks site remnants of twocotton plantations a hundredyearold country club a sewer plant and asmattering of mid to late twentiethcentury subdivisions.Lanesexplorations intensify his bonds to family friends and colleagues as theysharpen his sense of place. By looking more deeply at what lies close to homeboth the ordinary and the remarkable Lane shows us how whole new worlds canopen up. «
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