Cracks in the Pavement:
Acknowledgements
THIS BOOK WOULD not have been possible without the generous love and financial support of my late grandparents, Howard and Mary Ellen Morse, whose thrift and hard work on their modest Illinois farm helped enable me to become one of those rarest of specimens – a college graduate without college loans. My grandmother’s curiosity about my travels also spurred the writings in part two of this book. She left this world after ninety-three years in July of this year, and she is deeply missed.
I thank my mother Sherry, my late father Howard, my sisters Holly and Barbara, my brothers-in-law Jason and Darren, my nieces Kayla and Evelyn, and my nephew Ryan for humoring, supporting, and encouraging their restless and erstwhile son/brother/ brother-in-law/uncle through his many wanderings and adventures. Much love to all of you.
Thank you to Brian Penrose for nudging me along, to Maribel Andonian for help out of the starting gates, and to Amy Andonian for stellar editing in exchange for beer (remarkably, advanced payment did not affect performance).
To the Williams Islanders – Noah, Kelsey, Ashley, Ryan, Felicja, and Beth – I am grateful for your warmth and friendship. And to the rest of the Chattanooga community – Bill, Miriam, Padgett, Nathan, Candace, Mike, Ann, Yong, Yanka, Matt, Pete, Trae, and others – thank you for four of the most exquisite months I have known to date.
Maya and Marco, merci beaucoup for your lovely hospitality and a week to remember. Rea e Leonardo, grazie mille anche a voi. Dwight, gratitude as always for your friendship and inspiration.
To those who hosted Beatrice the Buick and me on our cross-country travels, thank you to all. That means: Tom and Tanya, R.C. and Sharyn, Anne and Ryan, Ed and Jane, Ms. Katherine Davis, Jonathan, Rascal Dan and Coleworth, Theresa, P-Koh, Steve-o, Paul and Kendra Strasburg, Ms. Dana Love, Tom and Val, Jen Jacobsen, the Sandven clan, Sallie ‘n’ James, Tor and Leah, Nan and Paul. Smooney and Dan Su, thank you for your couches and company.
Deena, Abby and Jenny, Steph and Feroze, Sonny and Eule, Tim and Amy, Jenn and Joan, Leon, Lisa and Taner, the 2009 2nds crew, Jedd and Rachel, Nate and Lyndsay, Brian and Courtney, and Lauren: thank you all for close to home encouragement and conversation.
Thanks to Joanna for tea and inspiration, and to the entire WTR family for a reminder of how rich life can be.
Orin and company at UC Santa Cruz, thank you for your friendship and know-how—and for a good trip to the pub every so often.
Hide, Momo, Yuichi, Kai and Seico, and friends in Japan – thank you for hospitality and hope. New friends in Burma and Thailand, I am so honored to have met you. Thank you for your openness and warmth. Wonderful LAB students—it was a pleasure.
To all others I have had to good fortune to get to know along the way, thank you.
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Films
The Age of Stupid, Spanner Films, 2009.
Blue Gold, 2009.
A Convenient Truth, 2005.
The Eleventh Hour, Warner Independent Pictures, 2007.
The End of Suburbia, 2004.
The End of the Line, 2009.
Flow, Oscilloscope Laboratories, 2008.
Food, Inc., Magnolia Pictures, 2009.
The Future of Food, Lily Pictures, 2004.
An Inconvenient Truth, Paramount Classics, 2006.
King Corn, Mosaic Films, 2007
CHAD MORSE WORKS as an experiential and service-learning educator with a focus on sustainability and agriculture. This is his first collection of writings.
