Maps are ostensibly a way that we root ourselves in the reality of the world as it is. Fixed coordinates and defined features help us to make our way in the world, and to share what we know with others. But mapping, like any storytelling, isn’t neutral. Join our visiting PhD researcher (and UU minister) Jordinn Nelson Long for an exploration of what’s at stake in this season as we make choices about how to represent the world around us. Music will feature Bronwyn Fryer and friends singing Paul Simon’s “Quiet” and Judy Collins’s “The Coming of the Roads,” with Hilary Poff providing the postlude on violin.

Rev. Jordinn Nelson Long (she/her) lives with her family in Rutland County, Vermont, and on the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland. She is a PhD candidate in cultural and economic geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador where she works on a grant funded by the Canadian Government’s Social Science and Humanities Research Council about church closure and the role of church buildings in community infrastructure.

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