Exploring Your Creative Genius: Episode 163
This week my guest was Cindy Geary. Her new book is ‘Ancestral Landscapes.’ Through a series of essays she explores, with love, the stories of where her families came from and how and why they came here. I found it fascinating.
An important theme in her book is land justice, the appreciative acknowledgement that this place we live was someone else’s home when we arrived.
One of the major tribes in the Chapel Hill area were the Occoneechee.
The Occoneechee lived in this area for centuries before Europeans arrived. They were hunters, gathers, and farmers and were renowned for their pottery, weaving, and basketmaking.
Highlighting their prominence in the area, Chapel Hill was first called ‘The Occoneechee Town.’
In Orange County we find the Occoneechee Mountain State Natural Area and the Occoneechee Golf Club.
If you are interested in learning more about Cindy and her work check out:
You’ll find ‘Ancestral Landscapes’ at Golden Fig Books. And if you decide to order it online Cindy and I both recommend bookshop.com. They share a percentage of sales with local bookstores.
“Exploring Your Creative Genius” takes an expansive view on what it means to be creative and entrepreneurial in an ongoing conversation led by Carl Nordgren — entrepreneur, novelist, and lifelong student with decades of experience growing his own creative capacity and assisting others to do the same in exciting new ways!
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