Present and Crass

While most other birds have gone in the opposite direction

Meredith Monk

their families

but deeply connected with our humanity

Enchanted Ground - Growing Roots in a Broken World cassette culture Present and CrassWhen Steven Lovatts grandmother died, he lost not only a beloved family member but also his last link to the way of life she had represented: rooted in place, socially democratic, ecologically rich. Cut loose from the past and confronted with a present missing even the birds of his childhood, Stevens mind cracked. Drawing on field work, local library archives and oral history, as well as dreams, diaries and visions, Enchanted Ground charts a fractured