![]() Along the way, he rediscovers a sense of self with the help of dozens of ordinary Midwesterners who share their own trials and triumphs. Seeking to exorcise demons both recent and enduring, Tim Herwig set out to walk from his adopted home of Chicago into the arms of friends and family 500 miles north. His first book of collected plays, sash & trim and other plays, was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in 2014 Professor of Theater, George Mason University. His photographic journey transcends time and place in the best possible way, and ultimately leads him right back where he belongs. The Long Way Home gives new meaning to Emerson's words: “It's not the destination, it's the journey.” As Herwig opens to the land during his quest for that elusive state of being known as home, he opens to memories of childhood, family, and to the histories of all the idiosyncratic people he encounters along the way. His meetings with people and places along the journey open up the history, culture and experience of this part of the Midwest in a way that will captivate any interested reader. So begins The Long Way Home - a closely observed account of the author's actual 5-week, 500-mile walk from Chicago to Minneapolis and parallel journey through the memories of his traumatic and painful life as a young man. We run so far and so deep that memory becomes forgetfulness. Terrible things done to us, and terrible things we have done to others. Some of the memories we keep inside, some of them are terrible. They attach themselves to anything that can bear to take them. They seep out of us like a spring or the fog and attach themselves to objects, sounds, smells, the wind. The memories of lives lived having kept everything inside. Yet the landscape is haunted with memories. So you keep your head down and your thoughts inside. It’s infinitely blue in summer and hammering gray in winter. ![]() Anyone who lives out in the open where little stands between you and the horizon knows this. "We keep things inside, those of us who live in the Midwest. ![]()
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