October 23, 2013Ed MaddenChurch Camp, Summer 1977

“When I was growing up, I learned in my church that we were a people of the book. In biology, I learned there were names for things—and so many things I needed to know. A mammal skull from a field behind the house could become a project on taxonomy and teeth. A story my father told about a trot-line in the river and a gar on the line was only one way to know the world: learning the names for things was another.”