updating credits, linking sara transcript

_emotions/02_nostalgia.md

@@ -13,13 +13,12 @@ The term 'majesty' and 'reverence' were used often when people of Appalachia ref
 "They spoke with a reverence. I can see it, I just can't even really quite describe just the way they said the word 'that's Chestnut'...They would always say it was just all the old timers used the same phrase, 'that's Chestnut'...Not until way later did I really understand why they would use such a reverent comment phrase 'that's Chestnut'... They never missed that chance to say it anytime we saw a dead chestnut tree." 
 
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-Ken,\
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+Ken
 
-Ken also explained these stories of nostalgia with reverence. There was an honour in the way the stories of the Human-Chestnut relationality were passed down as well. These emotions are rendered political in the comparative ecologies of how capitalist structures exploit natural resources (such as forest ecosystems), but in the region of Central Appalachia, the ways of living once were and continue to revere multispecies assemblages by the way people talk about a world that once was. Another thread of the honour involved in Human-Chestnut relations was expressed by Sara when she discussed her:</p> 
+Ken also explained these stories of nostalgia with reverence. There was an honour in the way the stories of the Human-Chestnut relationality were passed down as well. These emotions are rendered political in the comparative ecologies of how capitalist structures exploit natural resources (such as forest ecosystems), but in the region of Central Appalachia, the ways of living once were and continue to revere multispecies assemblages by the way people talk about a world that once was. Another thread of the honour involved in Human-Chestnut relations was expressed by Sara when she discussed her: 
 
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-"Uncle Charlie [who] still has that farm and we go up there regularly. So at some point in the near future, I want to plant a nice little grove up there in his honour and for the family." 
+["Uncle Charlie [who] still has that farm and we go up there regularly. So at some point in the near future, I want to plant a nice little grove up there in his honour and for the family."]({{'/items/chestnut051.html#chestnut05115' | relative_url}}) 
 
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_emotions/05_mountain_culture.md

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 "When that Chestnut died, a part of the mountain culture died with it. And the memories are still there. And so he [Rex's father] felt very passionate about the woods and the wildlife, but especially the Chestnut tree" 
 
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-Rex, Wednesday June 28, 2023\
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+Rex, Wednesday June 28, 2023
 
 When reflecting upon the mountain culture and the Chestnut's role in this culture, Rex vividly summed up the historical relationships that were changed when the Chestnuts died.
 However, he pointedly showed how the mountain culture did not disappear immediately, rather carried with the people of Appalachia. When looking at the ways of life surrounding mountain culture, Savannah believed:

_emotions/06_frustration.md

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 "American Chestnuts had zero defense against the Blight, and never needed to because American Chestnuts evolved in North America where that Blight didn't exist until it came over on a ship and somebody, zoom [making hand gestures], shot it across multiple oceans." 
 
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-Ken,  
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+Ken
 
 Ken further explained the emotions from the introduction that many Appalachians and people with vested interests in the American Chestnut who were working against the Blight felt:<p> 
 
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 "I'm sure they felt frustration that you can't stop it, we have no tools to stop it. Cutting trees ahead doesn't stop it, trying to treat trees, trying to cut off branches were infected, they tried all that at first and it just moved too fast and the fungus grew under the tree bark in the cambium layer so quickly just couldn't stop it... I'm sure it was a sense of hopelessness, helplessness for it. To lose such a valuable tree to them for all its purposes...I'm sure they, it was disbelief, no way, how can you kill all these trees, but when they saw it happening." 
 
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-Ken,  
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+Ken
 
 The idea of frustration plays into the emotional political ecology of human control of nature which has been greatly discussed by various researchers in the field of political ecology and economy but sometimes lacks the contributions of emotional geographical research as the human-chestnut ecologies could contribute (Weber, 2019; Haff, 2014).</p>

_emotions/07_sadness.md

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 Rex, Wednesday June 28, 2023  
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 Interestingly, the Chestnut Blight hit regions of Appalachia at different times in American history which changed the level of impact. In regions of Central Appalachia, often termed 'deep' Appalachia (Sara), the Blight hit during recovery from the Great Depression which added yet another struggle of living through a difficult time. This can be best illustrated from the passed down narratives from Rex:
 
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 Rex, Wednesday June 28, 2023  
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 Rex mentioned this shortly after discussing how his father carried a type of sadness surrounding the Chestnut tree. These are ways of life that are decreasing in great quantity and ending types of emotional and physical engagements with land and life in Appalachia. Outside of the regions of Central Appalachia, there were political ecologies occurring where the Chestnut blight enabled prosperity for harvesting the wood. Due to the unstoppable behavior of the Chestnut Blight, agencies informed land owners to harvest the Chestnut trees before the Blight killed them.
 
 {:.quote .sadness} 
-"Indiana is the only place where I've heard where, because the Chestnut was dying, people were able to subsist economically... because they were able to sell the wood," 
+["Indiana is the only place where I've heard where, because the Chestnut was dying, people were able to subsist economically... because they were able to sell the wood,"]({{'/items/chestnut051.#chestnut05130' | relative_url}})
 
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 Sara,   

_emotions/08_haunting.md

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 Rex, Wednesday June 28, 2023  
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 The emotions evoked by Appalachians when discussing the grey ghosts is made up of a suite of feelings regarding the standing trees. Interestingly, the grey ghosts also serve as physical pieces of the emotional political ecology of the salvage economics (Tsing, 2015) and communications that was advertised during the height of the Blight's spread. Land-owners were encouraged by the government and forest service to harvest all the Chestnuts that stood in the Blight's path as there were no known ways to combat the fungal infection. 
 
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 Rex, Wednesday June 28, 2023    
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 "And I just remembered as a kid, there was just this long run of dead trees. They were gray and straight up because of course it was forest. So it was straight up so trees are gonna grow up to compete tall and straight. Compared to like now you see bushy trees and orchard that kind of thing. These were competing trees...But there were still big trees at that point, dead trees kind of crumbling and falling apart. Just kind of scattered here and there...I remember as a kid that were still the full size. I mean, they still had the full branches. The tips of the branches leaves of course, were long gone. The bark was long gone. But as you remember, it took years for those trees just to slowly fall apart." 
 
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 Ken   
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 Many theorists and researchers delve into ideas of hauntology and ghostly existence in the world and the Anthropocene (Searle 2021). There was a large amount of data and materials in both the archives and interviews regarding ghostly existences and these accounts could provide for the introduction of plant hauntologies and botanical ghosts to the spectral ecologies which are dominated by animal geographies currently (McCorristine and Adams, 2019; Barlow, 2000). From the ghostly imaginaries and ways of existing, we can gleam new insights into the ethics of violence from the Chestnut as well.
 

_emotions/09_moral_obligation.md

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 Rex, Wednesday June 28, 2023  
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 Developing a moral code for Rex is rooted partially in religious and cosmological beliefs which was also shared by his father who was a Baptist preacher and witnessed the Blight's effect from the beginning. The justification for what is the 'right thing to do' in regard to the Chestnut restoration is very contingent on the individual's beliefs and ethical outlook in life. But the role humans have in the trajectory of the American Chestnut is a highly political debate ongoing and will continue as long as there are people who believe in the restoration of the species (Srinivasan and Kasturirangan, 2016).

_emotions/11_love_and_passion.md

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 Rex, Wednesday June 28, 2023  
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 {:.quote .love-and-passion}
 “And so at that time, in all the major cities of America, there was a love of the American Chestnut and they were roasted on the streets.” 
 
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 Rex, Wednesday June 28, 2023  
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 {:.quote .love-and-passion}
-“He loved the work that I was doing. His, my work only overlapped about two years with him before he died.” 
+[“He loved the work that I was doing. His, my work only overlapped about two years with him before he died.”]({{'/items/chestnut051.html#chestnut05115' | relative_url}}) 
 
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 Sara,   
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 Terry, Wednesday June 28, 2023  
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 {:.quote .love-and-passion}
 [“The community there … they love the forest, everyone, it's part of the community in Bath County is getting out and going to forest, going hunting, having a good time and enjoying it.”]({{'items/chestnut050.html#chestnut05010' | relative_url}}) 

_emotions/13_excitement.md

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 When thinking of ideas of exploration and the excitement of exploration was expanded on by Sara when she would hiked around her grandfather's property by
 
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-"go[ing] back there, climb the trees, and just kind of explore around and see what we could find. And it was just so, like, great to be in the forest and like getting away from everything." 
+"go[ing] back there, climb the trees, and just kind of explore around and see what we could find. And it was just so, like, great to be in the forest and like getting away from everything."
 
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-Sara,  
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+Sara   
 
 Regarding the Chestnut, Sara expressed how here grandfather was
 
 {:.quote .exploration}
-"really excited and hoping that I would plant [Chestnut] trees up on the farm when we got blight resistant trees. And that's, that's still my intention." 
+["really excited and hoping that I would plant [Chestnut] trees up on the farm when we got blight resistant trees. And that's, that's still my intention."]({{'/items/chestnut051.html#chestnut05115' | relative_url}}) 
 
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 Sara,  

_emotions/15_imagination.md

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 "So got my curiosity up, I started talking to the old timers 'round town...I remember carrying leaves home from that Chestnut, those Chestnut sprouts and showing them to those old timers, that they're still Chestnuts alive in the forest, even though they're kind of small and scrubby...they knew exactly what it was and wondering where I found it." 
 
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-Ken,  
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+Ken
 
 Many of the interviewees had a glowing smile when talking about the imaginative powers and curiosity they had when talking about the past massive Chestnuts or grey ghosts, current remnant saplings, or the future restored forests. The spectral qualities of the emotions involving imagination and curiosity is also very interesting when considering the time during the Chestnut tale they are discussing.
 
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 Terry, Wednesday June 28, 2023  
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 {:.quote .imagination}
 [And the Chestnut it's super, I care about it because like imagine, just imagine like we had these massive trees out here like the Redwoods because I've seen them and like and it was so ecological important, like, one in every three trees previously was American Chestnut like to have that out here, again."]({{'items/chestnut050.html#chestnut05061' | relative_url}}) 

_emotions/17_anxiety.md

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 An unexpected emotional political ecology surrounding the current status of the Chestnut remnants was the emotion of anxiety. Sara shared that when she used to go hiking in areas where Chestnut saplings could be living, she "can't go into the woods without looking for Chestnuts." After feeling emotions of anxiety, she even went to the point of
 
 {:.quote .anxiety}
-"join[ing] the caving club...because I could rest there in a sort of outdoor activity, not outdoors, but you know what I mean, like not in a house or a building but because there's no Chestnuts underground." 
+["join[ing] the caving club...because I could rest there in a sort of outdoor activity, not outdoors, but you know what I mean, like not in a house or a building but because there's no Chestnuts underground."]({{'/items/chestnut051.html#chestnut05141' | relative_url}}) 
 
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 Sara,  
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 She has now "made peace with that though" and can not feel this emotion while she hikes or works towards restoring the Chestnut
 
 {:.quote .anxiety}
-"Like I can either be anxious all the time and say that it sucks, or I can just embrace it and deal with it. And you know, that's took some time and some maturity and realizing that, especially like, around where I live, there's chestnuts all over the place"
+["Like I can either be anxious all the time and say that it sucks, or I can just embrace it and deal with it. And you know, that's took some time and some maturity and realizing that, especially like, around where I live, there's chestnuts all over the place"]({{'/items/chestnut051.html#chestnut05146' | relative_url}}) 
 
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 Sara,  
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 Terry, Wednesday June 28, 2023  
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 Both Terry and Sara expressed emotions of anxiousness through an anticipation of the unknown whether that be the presence/absence of a Chestnut sapling in the forest or the future of the Chestnut restoration.
 

_emotions/18_care.md

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 Sara also discussed a type of care for the Chestnut through her work with the species by saying:
 
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-"I mean, of course, I care about the ecology and the tree itself...There's something very charismatic about it, and I can't explain it other than like, it's a beautiful leaf, like it's very aesthetically pleasing, it grows really fast. It's a fighter, you know, just for this thing to hang on for so long after so many insults. And for it to keep going. It just, it wants to be rescued." 
+["I mean, of course, I care about the ecology and the tree itself...There's something very charismatic about it, and I can't explain it other than like, it's a beautiful leaf, like it's very aesthetically pleasing, it grows really fast. It's a fighter, you know, just for this thing to hang on for so long after so many insults. And for it to keep going. It just, it wants to be rescued."]({{'/items/chestnut051.html#chestnut05134' | relative_url}})  
 
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 "From the earliest days there's been this concept of stewardship, of taking care of the world we live in so that these grand kids that come along will inherit at least a good of world as we did" 
 
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-Rex, Wednesday June 28, 2023  
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+Rex, Wednesday June 28, 2023 
 
 I do not believe care is an outright emotional political ecology as seen with anxiety or hope, however, 'care' becomes an emotional political ecology when looking towards the reasons for having and expressing care. The reasons for caring varied from religious beliefs, forest ecology, restored historical relationships and sense of communities. These develop into different ethics of care held differently between individuals within the region further complicating how humans care for plant species experiencing extinction.

_emotions/19_patience.md

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 When considering the emotional political ecologies of the restoration process, Sara discussed how:
 
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-"tree breeding has made me much more patient because it just requires time requires time to grow trees to make trees it takes them a long time to flower and I mean there are techniques to reduce the amount of time for all of those things but it's still a lot easier or a lot harder to work with and say Arabidopsis or Tomatoes or Corn, you know, and so tree breeding in general has taught me a lot of patience." 
+["tree breeding has made me much more patient because it just requires time requires time to grow trees to make trees it takes them a long time to flower and I mean there are techniques to reduce the amount of time for all of those things but it's still a lot easier or a lot harder to work with and say Arabidopsis or Tomatoes or Corn, you know, and so tree breeding in general has taught me a lot of patience."]({{'/items/chestnut051.html#chestnut05140' | relative_url}})   
 
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_emotions/20_hope.md

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 [Hopeful honestly, because it's really hopeful, because seeing all these people work together so hard on, just for, just this one tree, this one species of tree."]({{'items/chestnut050.html#chestnut05058' | relative_url}}) 
 
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-Savannah,
+Savannah,  
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 Sara had a slightly different type of hope and it was placed in the specific plans of the American Chestnut Foundation's plans for developing a specific Blight-resistant Chestnut tree. She has a "strong, strong hope that will be even better than the transgenic on its own or the backcross trees on its own" (Sara).