Zachary Michael Jack
Zachary Michael Jack is the author of many books on place, the outdoors, and the environment, including most recently The Haunt of Home: A Journey Through America’s Heartland.
Articles by Zachary Michael Jack
Agrarian Fireworks
If you’re like me, holidays leave you feeling unusually contemplative, I suppose because the everyone-is-doing-it mentality awakens in us the long-slumbering cultural anthropologist. Holidays cause me to wonder why, exactly, we do what we do…
30 More Years of Rootless Professors
In the thirty years since writer-professor Eric Zencey first published his essay “The Rootless Professors” in the Chronicle of Higher Education, much has changed, and much hasn’t, regarding academe’s reputedly rootless…