Widdershins Project Archive
Research
Field investigations into cryptid, myth, and natural history. How a legend is honestly built, the ethics of an invented creature, and the deep time kept in the county’s oldest rock.
The Ant Gallery
The made rooms at the taproot's foot, three feet down
The Char and the Square Nail
Two ages in one handful, brought up from the clay at Red Banks
Le Loup d'Eau: The Water-Wolf of the Ahnapee Mouth
How a settler scare-story went down into the lake
· File 4L-1The Diver of the Manitowoc Wall
A figure in a clay-red diving dress, recorded where the walls meet the lake
· File 4L-2The Hodag Playbook
Seven mechanics of an honestly invented cryptid, and the exposure paradox
Where Waters Meet: The Name-Knot of Ahnapee
Wolf River, Ahnepee, Algoma, and the line an invented creature must never cross
Re-Gnoming a De-Gnomed World
Rewilding attention, story, and place as an ecological practice
The Ledge-Sleeper and the Rock's Own Time
A creature that keeps geological tempo in the oldest rock in the county
The Return
Home to the Bay in the fall of 2013, the circle closing at the college
The River Valley
The threshold ground where the barges and the herons kept company
The Mill Ruins
The drowned mills at the river's only fall
The Stone Arch
One night that held the whole shape of the years away
The Chain of Lakes
Loops kept on foot and on wheel, the water that held the city together
The Other City
The first walk into the low-brow current, kept from the year the sojourn began
The Leaving
Out from the Bay in the fall of 2008, the road running west