Place
In Barry Lopez’s “Losing Sense of Place” he talks about how Americans basically take our landmarks and geological features for granted. Lopez says, “In 40,000 years of human history, it has only been in the last few hundred years or so that a people could afford to ignore their local geographies as completely as we do and still survive.” This is very true over time the ideal of place is less meaningful; when America was discovered explores could not wait to map it out and now no one even owns a map or it is very seldom people know how to read them. The ideal of losing sense of place is an interesting concept because I have never thought of place as something that can be lost. Usually when I go somewhere I just think of it as a place and not take in its features but recently I have been tasked with looking at places as more than just a location and was shock with my findings.
Recently my English class and I ventured out to two local historical venues in Thibodaux Louisiana. The first one was Laurel Valley Plantation, original I was not excited to go here because being a Southern you see a Plantation every few miles. You see one you’ve seen them all or so I thought. Before visiting the Laurel Valley Plantation, the only plantation that I had visited was the Nottaway …show more content…
As I got out of Abi, my classmate’s car we were greeted by peking ducks and macchiato geese as we walking to meet our class. We walked along the waterfront as the tour guide gave a us a detailed geological history of Bayou Lafourche and even a little about Thibodaux’s history. As we walked on the spacious boardwalk we gazed at Bayou Lafourche as we learned what gives it its murky green color. Spoiler Alert; its color is a product of the algae and sediments that lie on the ground floor of the
In Barry Lopez’s “Losing Sense of Place” he talks about how Americans basically take our landmarks and geological features for granted. Lopez says, “In 40,000 years of human history, it has only been in the last few hundred years or so that a people could afford to ignore their local geographies as completely as we do and still survive.” This is very true over time the ideal of place is less meaningful; when America was discovered explores could not wait to map it out and now no one even owns a map or it is very seldom people know how to read them. The ideal of losing sense of place is an interesting concept because I have never thought of place as something that can be lost. Usually when I go somewhere I just think of it as a place and not take in its features but recently I have been tasked with looking at places as more than just a location and was shock with my findings.
Recently my English class and I ventured out to two local historical venues in Thibodaux Louisiana. The first one was Laurel Valley Plantation, original I was not excited to go here because being a Southern you see a Plantation every few miles. You see one you’ve seen them all or so I thought. Before visiting the Laurel Valley Plantation, the only plantation that I had visited was the Nottaway …show more content…
As I got out of Abi, my classmate’s car we were greeted by peking ducks and macchiato geese as we walking to meet our class. We walked along the waterfront as the tour guide gave a us a detailed geological history of Bayou Lafourche and even a little about Thibodaux’s history. As we walked on the spacious boardwalk we gazed at Bayou Lafourche as we learned what gives it its murky green color. Spoiler Alert; its color is a product of the algae and sediments that lie on the ground floor of the