How to Recover A Lost Place: Exploring Emiquon In “Forgottonia”

As a boy, I couldn’t wait to go exploring with my brother Dan. We would wander down an abandoned rail line through untilled farm fields that had once been prairies. We were always in search of Native Americans, wild rivers and surprising bodies of water.

The best we could do was traverse a mostly dry culvert under the railroad tracks. We would dare each …