Black Faces, White Spaces by Carolyn Finney

I did remember that whoever had mentioned her name had also asked the same question about familial and psychic connections. I had spent the last two years of my life being swept up in the whirlwind of readings, travel, and moving that I had dropped the ball to find out more. I had heard this name somewhere before? Someone had mentioned her to me somewhere. 'I think you need to know about this!' Kate is often blunt in the most refreshing of ways.Ĭarolyn Finney? Carolyn Finney? Carolyn Finney? 'Do you know this woman?' Kate wrote, 'Is she related to you?' Kate asked again. The dedicated book scout was still on the case!The book was titled : Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors by Carolyn Finney. Attached to her email was the announcement of a new book coming down the publishing pipeline from the University of North Carolina Press. Kate and I do more with pencil and pen than email. In December 2013, after living in South Carolina for only a few months, to my great surprise, Kate emailed me. Kate was my friend but she was also my 'new book' scout in the world. Kate’s big mind was always flying through the world on the lookout for great new books and the iconic under-the-radar human beings proposing them. A Finney Woman Reimagining the Great Outdoorsīefore I moved away from Lexington, Kentucky, my dear friend, Kate Black, wise woman of the kitchen, gardener extraordinaire, and sincerest of human souls, had the lovely habit of leaving various and amazing magazine or newspaper articles in my mailbox or folded into the screen of my front door.

Black Faces, White Spaces by Carolyn Finney