Indiana Gazette
On The BookShelf
January 17, 1993
I like it out here in the rain … “Heaven Is Under Our Feet,” a collection edited by Don Henley and Dave Marsh, was on the best-seller lists last year and has recently come out in paperback. The anthology is subtitled “A Book for Walden
Woods,” and, on the high road, offers essays by Jimmy Carter, E.L. Doctorow, Jim Harrison, Louise Erdrich, Thomas McGuane, Bill McKibben and Wallace Stegner, among others.
On the low road, Ed Begley Jr., Don Johnson, Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Kirstie Alley, and that wellknown outdoorswoman Bette Midler (Barbra Streisand must have been out of town) also offer their thoughts on what Thoreau and Walden Woods
have meant to them.
If you can get past the trial of navigating through Paula Abdul‘s thoughts on the e n v i r o nme n t, “Heaven Is Under Our Feet” (Berkley) offers a considerable amount of good, thoughtful reading. Its proceeds go to raise money to preserve the area known as Brister’s Hill from development.
this is one of my all time fav photo of Bette