ABSTRACT
Perhaps the greatest pleasures of working on this place-based pedagogy project over the years have been getting the chance to visit so many amazing Southern places and getting to know some of the amazing people who care for them. From the start of the project the group decided that rather than gathering in sterile, anonymous conference halls to do this work, we would instead meet to talk about place in actual places. We have met in a cabin in the north Georgia mountains near Atlanta; in a house on Big Talbot Island in the Low Country near Jacksonville, Florida; at the Green River Preserve in western Kentucky; and at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. We found that visiting and reflecting on these special places together, including both their beautiful and ugly aspects, significantly deepened our pedagogical reflections on place, while also connecting us more closely to each other and to each of these specific places.
