The Blue Million Miles
Connor Towne O'Neilloccasional essays from your old pal Con.
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Hi, everyone. This is not an essay about swimming. And I no longer live in Alabama. I don’t know what that means for this newsletter. Or for me. But here’s something I wrote which is kinda sorta about all that. I hope you’ll read it.
You m...
#8 Labor Day at Chewacla
Hey, everyone.
Some technical issues on my end meant that the last issue of the Blue Million Miles was text-only. I thought I’d rectify that by making this one strictly for your ears. You might remember that last year I spent July 4th wrin...
#07 Dauphin Island
Hi, friends - my microphone is on the blink so just a post to read today. As longtime subscribers know, we stick to a pretty strict editorial schedule here at the Blue Million Miles and I wanted to get this out before I’m able to rejigger m...
#05: Lake Chinnabee
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It’s always easier not to. Not to write. Not to swim. Not to write about swimming. Easier not to turn left off the state road and descend the mountain to the lake below. It’s not like anyone will ever force you to. The excu...
#4: Jackson Lake Island and Corn Creek Park
To write about the waterways of Alabama is to wade through converging streams of fact and fiction, reality and lore, what’s actually true and what’s just a good story.
Let me give you an example: a few weeks ago, on an oxbow of the Alabama...
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Author of Down Along with That Devil's Bones: A Reckoning with Monuments, Memory, and the Legacy of White Supremacy. Producer on the NPR podcast White Lies.
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