Secret Vistas: A River Runs Through It
July 31st, 2005 |
Editor’s Note: Editor and Publisher Glynn Wilson usually writes a weekly column on Sunday.
by Glynn Wilson
Editor and Publisher
LOCUST FORK RIVER, Blount County, Ala., July 30 – “I am haunted by waters,” author Norman Maclean wrote in the conclusion to his memoir A River Runs Through It.
It is a line that will be familiar to anyone who watched the movie produced by Robert Redford about fly-fishing on the Big Blackfoot River in Montana.
“Poets talk about ‘spots of time,’” Maclean wrote. “My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him, all good things – trout as well as eternal salvation – come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy.”
Maclean was a great American writer, not just a regional writer, who learned to think and write – to create art – first working for a newspaper, I suspect, then a university.
