English 350, Expository Writing: Rhetorics of Place, Fall 2013
Bibliography

Project 1: Memoir

• Kevin Baker, “When Rockport Was My Own,” New York Times, March 23, 2011: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/24/garden/24Domestic.html
• Ricki Morell, “Selling Sunbeam Road,” New York Times, Sept. 24, 2013: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/24/booming/selling-sunbeam-road.html
• Amy Poehler, “Take Your Licks,” The New Yorker, October 14, 2013: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/10/14/131014fa_fact_poehler

Project 2: Map

• Rebecca Solnit, Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, excerpts at http://www.7x7.com/arts/rebecca-solnits-infinite-city-maps-sf-whole-new-light ;
• Miranda Purves and Jason Logan, “The Last Bus Home,” at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/opinion/29purves.html
• Matt Flegenheimer, “A Ship of Love Passing in the Night,” at http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/29/nyregion/ferried-between-islands-toward-love-and-its-promise.html?hp&_r=0
• Amanda Lavelle, “One Sixteen,” at http://blogs.umass.edu/english350-dfleming/2012/10/12/one-sixteen/
• Kerry McDonough, “Clark’s Circles of Influence,” at http://blogs.umass.edu/english350-dfleming/2012/10/15/clarks-circles-of-influence/
• David Fleming, “Searching for Ulmus americana,” at http://cityofrhetoric.wordpress.com/2013/06/26/searching-for-ulmus-americana/
• David Fleming, “Audubon Road,” at http://cityofrhetoric.wordpress.com/2013/07/17/audubon-road/

Project 3: Engagement

• Beavan, Colin.  No Impact Man.  New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
• Fleming, David  “An Embarrassment of Bicycles,” at http://cityofrhetoric.wordpress.com/2013/10/15/an-embarrassment-of-bicycles/
• Other possibilities:
  • UMass Amherst
    • Student Farming: http://extension.umass.edu/vegetable/projects/student-farming-enterprise
    • Bike Share Program: http://www.umass.edu/livesustainably/projects/bike-share-program
    • The Master Plan: http://www.umass.edu/cp/mp.htm
  • Surrounding area
    • King Street corridor in Northampton: http://www.northamptonma.gov/opd/uploads/listWidget/2552/KingStreetFinalReport.pdf
    • Youth art project in Holyoke: http://www.nuevaesperanzaholyoke.org/news-and-events/youth-group-working-to-reduce-liquor-signs-in-holyoke/
  • Further afield
    • Proposal for bike and pedestrian bridge in NYC:  http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/opinion/sunday/lets-build-a-new-bridge-no-cars-allowed.html
    • Food deserts in Madison, WI: http://host.madison.com/news/local/grassroots/soglin-calls-for-citywide-food-policy-to-curb-problem-of/article_0b2ebb90-cacc-11e1-9f43-001a4bcf887a.html

Project 4: Travelogue

• Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube (excerpt, pp. 25-26).  New York Review Books, 2005.
• Nathaniel Rich, “How to Spend 47 Hours on a Train and Not Go Crazy,” New York Times, February 28, 2013: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/magazine/47-hour-train-ride.html?ref=magazine&pagewanted=all .  See interview with the author here: http://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/04/behind-the-story-nathaniel-rich-on-kooky-train-travelers-and-why-he-always-shaves-before-reporting/?hp&_r=0 
• David Fleming, “The Lost Meadows of Northampton” Massachusetts Review, Spring 2013: Vol. 54.1, pp. 115-144.
• Emmy Carver, “The Efforts of Elevation,” at http://blogs.umass.edu/english350-dfleming/2012/10/26/the-efforts-of-elevation/ 
• Melissa Mahoney, “Traversing Traboules” (June 29, 2013), from “As the Honeybee Flies”: http://melissamahoney.wordpress.com/2013/06/29/traversing-traboules/ 

Project 5: Restoration

• Theo Richmond, Konin: One Man’s Quest for a Vanished Jewish Community (excerpt, ch. 62).  New York: Vintage, 1995.
• Julia Basal, “The Lemon House,” at http://blogs.umass.edu/english350-dfleming/2012/12/03/the-lemon-house/
• Shoki Yashiro, “A Guarded Craft,” at http://blogs.umass.edu/english350-dfleming/2012/11/30/a-guarded-craft/
• Antonia Moore, “Ireland’s Forgotten Island, Revisited,” http://blogs.umass.edu/english350-dfleming/2012/11/24/irelands-forgotten-island-revisited/
• Ashleigh West, “Abigail Adams House: First Women’s Dormitory,” http://blogs.umass.edu/english350-dfleming/2012/11/21/abigail-adams-house-the-first-womens-dormitory/
• David Fleming, “44 State Street, Northampton,” at http://cityofrhetoric.wordpress.com/2013/06/11/44-state-street-northampton/