Category: Nonfiction at Sewanee
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Reflections on the Domain
A piece on Sewanee students’ sense of place for Dr. David Haskell‘s Environmental and Biological Nonfiction class at Sewanee. For my open-ended experiment, I chose to interview four seniors about their favorite place on campus. I wanted to come to understand how Sewanee’s Domain affects its students. It’s rare for a university to have space…
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The Poison That’s Silencing the Call of the Loon
An article by the Northeastern Naturalist digs into the causes of lead poisoning in loons around New England and paves the way for conservationists and everyday people to make small changes that may help save these beautiful birds. Across New England, lakes are dotted with these birds. They bob on the surface, slip underwater, pop up across…
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The Raccoon Night, and Other Misadventures
My piece written for Dr. David Haskell‘s Creative Writing: Narrative Nonfiction class at Sewanee. We called the raccoon Betsy. The interns named her earlier that summer, after they came face to face with her outside their tent one night. They heard her scratching around in the forest and found their food strewn across the campsite…
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Conservation for the People
An Ethical and Political Examination of the Purpose of America’s National Parks My senior capstone for the Environmental Arts and Humanities major at Sewanee. Introduction From its founding in 1916 to present day, the United States National Park Service (NPS) has experienced numerous policy changes, legal fights, threats, and a range of debates over its…
Kelly Thomsen 