Short Story Of Fyp

Every place in this world has a story, some good and some bad. The good stories usually being the ones that people tell based off of a true passion and admiration of a place. Those could range from how the town got its name to how the couple down the street met. On the other hand the bad stories come from a dark place within a place that few know. Bad stories usually are no expressed about a place for fear of how it will color the perception of the place. Through our time in FYP we heard a number of stories about Sewanee and the towns surrounding it. Some of those stories were beautiful and allowed the class to see the place as more than just an institution. At the same time we heard stories that were not as beautiful or positive, that allowed …show more content…
Throughout FYP we were educated on how different people have tried to change the Plateau. How back when the forest of Sewanee was very barren and the Vice-Chancellor at the time was offered money to sell the little wood it had left. The Vice-Chancellor made the decision to not sell the wood but to actually build it back up. The negative story of how the forest became barren due to overuse of its wood is one that had been often shared. Another is how people have tried to come here to build paths and buy land in order to build it up. The conservationists have either always stopped these things from happening or the ideas fall through. The idea that people wish to change the natural construct of the South Cumberland Plateau; demonstrates how people have stopped appreciating the natural resources provided to us. It’s now all about build, build, build and how can one make a quick buck this way or that way. These negative stories of how the environment of the Sewanee region, were effected allows for a more holistic side to these negative stories. Each place has stories and half of them are negatives one but then those are also divided into their own sections as …show more content…
What is the point of knowing these negative stories? The point is to truly be able to grasp a place. A place cannot be understood or found if one only sees one half of that story. It’s the same way as getting to know a person. If the person is fake when we meet them and they make us believe they are nice, but at the end of the day they aren’t then we cannot trust them. It goes hand and hand, in order to be one with the place like a person; one must know all sides of it. Because in knowing all sides it allows a person to figure out if that place is right for them. Also to see where that place is coming from; how did it evolve into the place that it is today? Obtaining all side of the story of Sewanee allows me to be an educated resident. It would be nice to be blind to the segregated graveyard on campus, the dangers of Tracy City, or the fact that Sewanee was not allows this lush and green, but then I would not be a Sewanee student. Sewanee students are informed of what went on to make sure it never happens again and also that everything is the way it should be. The same idea of how a place has multiple sides can be said for my hometown. Being from Washington, DC people know mostly the good of the place. How it is this beautiful city that has a lot of diversity and it has the President, Capital Hill, etc. While yes