The Haunt of HomePub Date : 2020-10-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501751790.003.0015
Zachary Michael Jack
{"title":"Afterword","authors":"Zachary Michael Jack","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501751790.003.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501751790.003.0015","url":null,"abstract":"This afterword reflects on how the author spent his father's birthday looking out the window of a cabin on the edge of the Ventana Wilderness in rural Monterey County, California. By comparison with the author's native Midwest, the obituaries run in the local newspaper, the Pine Cone, are long and almost incorrigibly joyful, crafted by survivors chock-full of joie de vivre. The author then talks about how a growing number of observers wrongly regard life in Middle America as a self-inflicted health hazard or risk factor, a dangerous lifestyle choice accompanied by grave consequences. While the rest of the nation sometimes begrudges the heartland their abiding necromancy and fussy cult-of-the-dead, it is worth considering the many ways in which a culture that speaks to, and with, its deceased is a culture more timeless, by definition, than that enjoyed by good-timers and death-deniers living elsewhere. These days, Midwestern Fatalism is part catchphrase, part internet meme, and part regional stereotype. Ultimately, the author maintains that to love life is first to know and to respect death.","PeriodicalId":189176,"journal":{"name":"The Haunt of Home","volume":"112 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122330727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Haunt of HomePub Date : 2020-10-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501751790.003.0012
Zachary Michael Jack
{"title":"Ghost Players","authors":"Zachary Michael Jack","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501751790.003.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501751790.003.0012","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter narrates the author's experience during the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Field of Dreams film. The celebration, timed to coincide with Father's Day, represented a chance for the movie's disciples and defenders — the fellowship of the Field — to experience communally the spiritual satisfactions of an intensely personal cinematic experience. For the moment they do not care about the film's many detractors, movie snobs who find it too allegorical, too Midwestern, or simply too corny. They came to nourish their souls in the company of others who have likewise come to associate the film with peace and renewal: the crisp clapboard house with its long curving verandah, the upright picket fence, the Eastergreen grass, the handsome boy-next-door movie star who might as well be Jimmy Stewart or Cary Grant, and the storyline and setting that is so powerfully elemental. On that night, the Field's devoted followers, seek paradox: achieving personal salvation together.","PeriodicalId":189176,"journal":{"name":"The Haunt of Home","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125637234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Haunt of HomePub Date : 2020-10-15DOI: 10.1002/0471743984.vse2684
Zachary Michael Jack
{"title":"Dredge","authors":"Zachary Michael Jack","doi":"10.1002/0471743984.vse2684","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/0471743984.vse2684","url":null,"abstract":"Two years shy of his fortieth birthday, a Midwesterner named James B. Hill filed a patent for a machine to dredge the hell out of his native state. He named the contraption Buckeye Traction Ditcher. It ditched the entire Great Black Swamp, an unfathomably large miasma snaking its way from Indiana to Ohio. Once the gargantuan machine had gorged itself, its young inventor took it to Louisiana, where it simmered and stewed and eventually drained the devil out of that state, too. Meanwhile, the same year the farmer-professor's father won his home county's award for combating the scourge of soil erosion, the Farm and Rural Life Poll found two-thirds of the farmers in the Fatherland felt the nation had some seriously dirty water, while just 20 percent reckoned the water on their own farm was polluted.","PeriodicalId":189176,"journal":{"name":"The Haunt of Home","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128355609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Haunt of HomePub Date : 2020-10-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501751790.003.0014
Zachary Michael Jack
{"title":"Dovesong","authors":"Zachary Michael Jack","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501751790.003.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501751790.003.0014","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter describes the mourning dove's funerary dirge. For the first time in nearly a century, open season has been declared on the dove. Amendments fail to outlaw the lead bullet or set the kill zone back from homes. The chief executive signs the bill in the company of lobbyists from the National Rifle Association. These five ounces of meat with wings are purported to bring seven million dollars into governmental coffers. Ultimately, forty-one of fifty states favor open season on the dove of mourning, making them, in effect, sitting ducks. The chapter then explores how the debate over open season on the mourning dove heralds the coming of the culture wars.","PeriodicalId":189176,"journal":{"name":"The Haunt of Home","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133263118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Haunt of HomePub Date : 2020-10-15DOI: 10.7591/cornell/9781501751790.003.0013
Zachary Michael Jack
{"title":"Cornfield Cathedrals","authors":"Zachary Michael Jack","doi":"10.7591/cornell/9781501751790.003.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501751790.003.0013","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter focuses on Foxfield Golf Course, run by two unpaid employees, a father and a son. Some say this cornfield mecca never really existed, apart from some inexpensive business cards printed once upon a time. And yet the author played it day after day. However, Foxfield is no more. Theologians, mystics, literary theorists, and quacks insist people become pilgrims only when they realize what they lack. A pilgrimage is a journey undertaken in light of a story. The author then talks about how they wanted to go back to their home farm. After thirty-odd years of such middling Middle Americanism, of Protestant work ethic and prudence bordering on Puritanical, the author was ready to be a true pilgrim, to do what pilgrims do: travel across the burning sands in search of a mecca.","PeriodicalId":189176,"journal":{"name":"The Haunt of Home","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133606658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Haunt of HomePub Date : 2020-09-15DOI: 10.1515/9781501751813-001
Zachary Michael Jack
{"title":"Introduction: Middle American Gothic and the Haunt of Home","authors":"Zachary Michael Jack","doi":"10.1515/9781501751813-001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501751813-001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":189176,"journal":{"name":"The Haunt of Home","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122144223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Haunt of HomePub Date : 2020-09-15DOI: 10.1515/9781501751813-008
{"title":"7. Death by Mail","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9781501751813-008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501751813-008","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":189176,"journal":{"name":"The Haunt of Home","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133175139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Haunt of HomePub Date : 2020-09-15DOI: 10.1515/9781501751813-003
{"title":"2. Playing Ball for the Team of the Dead","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9781501751813-003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501751813-003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":189176,"journal":{"name":"The Haunt of Home","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122541921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Haunt of HomePub Date : 2020-09-15DOI: 10.1515/9781501751813-007
{"title":"6. The Casket-maker’s Son","authors":"","doi":"10.1515/9781501751813-007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501751813-007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":189176,"journal":{"name":"The Haunt of Home","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133341727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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