What We Need to Remember About the Earth and Culture: A Trip to Forgottonia

I have a soft spot in the thinking part of my heart for places that are neglected, yet are vast precious fields of memory, often buried under corn and soybean fields.

Which is why I couldn’t pass up a trip to Forgottonia. This is a place that in name only exists in satirical history: It was a so-called “breakaway republic” in the 1970s that local residen…