Kirsten Swenson is associate professor of art history at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. She is the author of Irrational Judgments: Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt, and 1960s New York (Yale University Press, 2015) and, with Emily Eliza Scott, co-editor and author of the volume Critical Landscapes: Art, Space, Politics (University of California Press, 2015). Rebecca Uchill is director of the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. She was previously a faculty member and director of community engagement initiatives at the College of Visual and Performing Arts at UMass Dartmouth. She has held curatorial positions at institutions including Mass MoCA, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University.

• Part I: On This GroundChapter 1 In the Absence of Cultural Reflections: Looking for a LandscapeChapter 2 Not Neutral Ground: Creative Landscapes of Eastern MassachusettsPart II: Local EcologiesChapter 3 Introduction: Local EcologiesChapter 4 Ecologies of AcknowledgmentChapter 5 Botanies of MigrationChapter 6 Ground Truthing Chapter 7 Life of the MerrimackChapter 8 Coda: Dear Readers

Kirsten Swenson is associate professor of art history at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. She is the author of Irrational Judgments: Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt, and 1960s New York (Yale University Press, 2015) and, with Emily Eliza Scott, co-editor and author of the volume Critical Landscapes: Art, Space, Politics (University of California Press, 2015). Rebecca Uchill is director of the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. She was previously a faculty member and director of community engagement initiatives at the College of Visual and Performing Arts at UMass Dartmouth. She has held curatorial positions at institutions including Mass MoCA, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University.

• Part I: On This GroundChapter 1 In the Absence of Cultural Reflections: Looking for a LandscapeChapter 2 Not Neutral Ground: Creative Landscapes of Eastern MassachusettsPart II: Local EcologiesChapter 3 Introduction: Local EcologiesChapter 4 Ecologies of AcknowledgmentChapter 5 Botanies of MigrationChapter 6 Ground Truthing Chapter 7 Life of the MerrimackChapter 8 Coda: Dear Readers

Kirsten Swenson is associate professor of art history at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. She is the author of Irrational Judgments: Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt, and 1960s New York (Yale University Press, 2015) and, with Emily Eliza Scott, co-editor and author of the volume Critical Landscapes: Art, Space, Politics (University of California Press, 2015). Rebecca Uchill is director of the Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. She was previously a faculty member and director of community engagement initiatives at the College of Visual and Performing Arts at UMass Dartmouth. She has held curatorial positions at institutions including Mass MoCA, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University.

• Part I: On This GroundChapter 1 In the Absence of Cultural Reflections: Looking for a LandscapeChapter 2 Not Neutral Ground: Creative Landscapes of Eastern MassachusettsPart II: Local EcologiesChapter 3 Introduction: Local EcologiesChapter 4 Ecologies of AcknowledgmentChapter 5 Botanies of MigrationChapter 6 Ground Truthing Chapter 7 Life of the MerrimackChapter 8 Coda: Dear Readers