“Fine then
“Slippery and waddle thieving my tomatoes still / green in the morning’s shade
Man’s very soul and body seem to melt away into the singular silence and tranquility of the surrounding air
With the help of an encouraging park ranger
who over the course of the 1970s falls in love with the natural world around him
The Home Place YOSEMITEMAPS “Fine thenDating back to slavery, Edgefield County, South Carolinaa place "easy to pass by on the way somewhere else"has been home to generations of Lanhams. In The Home Place, readers meet these extraordinary people, including Drew himself, who over the course of the 1970s falls in love with the natural world around him. As his passion takes flight, however, he begins to ask what it means to be "the rare bird, the oddity. By turns angry, funny, elegiac, and