No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monu­ments,” Wallace Stegner wrote in his 1988 essay “The Sense of Place.” The essay, too, can play an instrumental role in defining both particular places and the idea of place. At its best, the essay […]

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