Navigating family history
Editor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 2007, Chris Fuller reflects on his nautical…
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Hope and Expectation
Tholen, Zeeland, The Netherlands (2017) First a little backstory: this spring I got to revisit Tholen, Zeeland, the town in the Netherlands where my…
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The stories we don’t tell
“Don’t buy a house in Second Ward.” Maybe I shouldn’t have been surprised when a pastor who was new to our community told me…
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Skamani Season
sand pipers pluck the eyes of junk shad twitching in mesh nets strewn over the quay as big blue men string poles along the…
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Rocky River Series: Camp
Three Rivers, Michigan (March 2017) On the other side of the bridge from the historic timeline mural where a lone Indian gazes longingly into…
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Rocky River series: Railroad
Three Rivers, Michigan (March 2017) Three Rivers is located near the old Sauk Trail, a pathway between Detroit and Chicago that was first forged…
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Rocky River series: Beach
Three Rivers, Michigan (March 2017) When I first moved to Three Rivers, I heard about a beach that the city had built along the…
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Rocky River Series: Mural
Three Rivers, Michigan (March 2017) In the thirteen years I’ve lived in Three Rivers, I’ve watched this mural on the Pealer Street Bridge progressively…
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Patterns of migration
She never ceased to wonder at the incredible power of birds for adaptation. These had flown perhaps a thousand miles from the South to…
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Memories of Main Street
My Saturday takes me round-trip. I start the morning with a volunteer shift in the downtown fair trade store my husband and I helped…
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