According to the National Geographic Society, “in 1984, the National Council of Geographic Education (NCGE) and the Association of American Geographers (AAG) broke the discipline of geography into five major themes, which some continue to use to help teach geography: location, place, human-environment interaction, movement, and region.”
It is interesting to think how time and people can change a person’s perception of a place. I have no nostalgia for Cameron. I never lived there even though we grew up in the same family. But I do have similar fond memories of the same woman hanging laundry outside in the warm, fresh, crisp breeze of St. Joseph. And the house on Trevillian drive feels more like a museum to me; a place attached to me only for its relevance to the past as a place where my family once lived before I was born. Where people significant to me probably once hung pictures.
It is interesting to think how time and people can change a person’s perception of a place. I have no nostalgia for Cameron. I never lived there even though we grew up in the same family. But I do have similar fond memories of the same woman hanging laundry outside in the warm, fresh, crisp breeze of St. Joseph. And the house on Trevillian drive feels more like a museum to me; a place attached to me only for its relevance to the past as a place where my family once lived before I was born. Where people significant to me probably once hung pictures.
Thank you so much for this, Chris! I have a lot more Trevillian Drive memories here, which is a longer version of this piece: https://writefoxllc.com/roads-and-streets-highways-and-words-introducing-a-memoir/
Thank you for sharing this!
My geographer's heart loves your framework and how beautifully you captured what place can mean! ❤️
I love how you write about place!