Stephen Vincent's piece about / review of a presentation by photographer Richard Long (Big Valley???) is keen and thoughtful. Stephen picks up on a certain unread quality to Long. did he, Stephen wonders, traipse about out there without some connection to Muir, Snyder, Whalen? could one traverse this landscape here and not think of Thoreau putting in the mileage? it seems so out of touch, notin the sense of having to worship those predecessors, but that they were there, they help form the tradition in which he himself. oh, did this Charles Olson write about Gloucester too?. a basic lack of connection.