Table of Contents

Preface

Set on a Wall 1
-Only Leave a Trace
-Hard Times
-The Teacher of Machiavelli
-Vikingskipshuset, Oslo
-Make Yourself Big

Under
-If Students Ask
-Reciprocity
-Easter Weekend
-Years of Promises to See this Day
-Round Dance
-Dog Sled
-Those Who Build Bridges
-While Stephen Lewis Sleeps

Over
-Highway Time
-A Life as Thin as Paper
-Straw-Men and Politicians
-Six Years, No Accidents
-A Curator of Tears
-Another Year, And No Disaster
-Job Description
-This is the Way the World Will End or, How a Dean Thinks

Around 1
-Someplace, Not No-Place
-Saturday Morning at the Co-op
-Doctor Fowler
-Reading University
-Boundaries
-First Things, And How Wine Was Served on Campus
-Resource Curse

Around 2
-On Sunday They Will Walk
-Leave a Message at the Tone
-The Under-Painting
-A Wednesday Night in Daysland
-Generation Gap
-Brainstorm
-Return to Aberystwyth
-Turning 50

Through
-SE 09 31 06

Set on a Wall 2
-Numbering the Days
-The Old Man in Winter
-Iron Cage
-The Image of a Hundred Years
-Reminders
-Last Night in June

Notes
Acknowledgements

About the Author

Roger Epp is Professor of Political Science at the University of Alberta. He served as founding Dean of the university’s Augustana Campus in Camrose from 2004 to 2011. Much of his recent writing has explored what it means to live in the prairie West with a sense of memory, inheritance, and care. He is author of We Are All Treaty People: Prairie Essays (UAP), co-editor of Writing Off the Rural West (UAP), and co-producer of the documentary “The Canadian Clearances” for CBC Radio Ideas. His website is www.rogerepp.com. Rhonda Harder Epp is a painter whose work is held in private and institutional collections. Her work has been shown in galleries across western Canada.

Reviews

#2 on Edmonton Non-Fiction Bestsellers list, April 30, 2017