"Gullies of My People is a "nature memoir" in which John Lane examines the geological history of his childhood home in South Carolina and how it intertwines with and metaphorically mirrors his personal and ancestral history. For Lane, the family landscape and the Piedmont landscape have always overlapped for and they cannot be separated.Indeed, he argues that the gully parallels both his personal struggles as well as those of his predecessors. To bolster this claim, he discusses the ancestral research his sister, Sandy, has made her life's work since retiring. Together, they have worked to write down and explore the many stories they remember while they are both able in order to uncover and preserve as much of their history as possible. The reader follows on Lane's journey to discover not just genealogy or geology, but also how these combined formed him as an individual"--
John Lane.
