Voices from the land --Introduction

A presentation in mixed media by Joseph Vincent Siry
	Ralph Waldo Emerson & W. E. B. Dubois:
	A digital look at two voices of the land

	Saranac Lake, The Adirondack Mountains, New York State
	William E. B. Dubois	Ralph Waldo Emerson



		Winslow Homer
	The Country School. Winslow Homer, 1871 Oil on Canvass; St. Louis Art Museum

Quote	"Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results." John Dewey, 1912.
	Ironies of the American care for land: "land where our parents died, land of the Pilgrim's Pride, Of Thee I Sing."



	An anxiety of experience fostering an enduring dualism at the core of the nation's natural and cultural legacy.


Theme	— two distant voices—as depicted in art, literature, song, history and activism.






	Winding River, Martin Johnson Heade, 1863.


Sources	National Gallery of Art