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Contributor Jon Weller

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January 1, 2015
The prominent American writer Wallace Stegner once wrote that “home is a notion that only nations of the homeless fully appreciate and only the uprooted comprehend.” He was someone who understood being displaced. Originally from Iowa, Stegner’s family moved to the Saskatchewan frontier in 1915. As family and environmental crises emerged, Stegner’s childhood became punctuated by relocation, denying him any opportunity to call one place home. His past and his home were never a place, but rather “what you can take away with you.”
Published December 12th, 2014 | Zero comments

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