Honoring the land, legacy, and stories that inspire us.
Some stories are too important to forget. My writing is a personal tribute to the rural South, its people, traditions, landscapes, and legacies of family, community, and resilience.
I write for those who value personal narratives of rural life, hoping to preserve what’s being lost.
For People and Places We Want to Remember
This story isn’t just mine. It’s for anyone who has watched family farms disappear, who treasures the wisdom of grandparents, or who seeks to understand the connections among family, communities, and the land that sustains us.
These stories matter because they are vanishing.
Whether you grew up listening to screen doors slam on summer evenings or yearn for a more rooted understanding of place, my writing holds something for you.
Every disappearing farmhouse, every field transformed into a subdivision, every forgotten family tradition or recipe is a missing page in the story of a shared heritage.
When the last farmers in your family or community disappear, what happens to their stories?
My memoir in progress explores growing up on a struggling family tobacco farm in rural North Carolina. It reflects on shame and dignity, labor and love, family and nature, and a girl’s search for her place in a changing world.
Capturing the past through memoir and personal essays and stories.
As a farmer’s daughter who is preserving her family’s legacy, I’ve spent decades balancing preservation of the past with the realities of the present.
When I’m not writing, you’ll find me walking the same fields cultivated by generations of my family, collecting stories, and advocating for the farm and farmland.
The fields, woods, and wetlands that nurtured me inspire this work of remembrance. In honoring the lives of those who came before us, we can find wisdom for the future.
Hi there!
I’m Rhonda.
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I write what the land remembers: stories rooted in farming, family, nature, and life as a farm child. These posts trace a vanishing world and offer reflections on what’s been lost, what still lingers, and what’s worth holding on to.
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