Neville Sails Ghost Ship Through Inland Seas

Butler University's Susan Neville talks about her book, Sailing the Inland Sea, that recently won Indiana's highest book honor:

"As the inland sea that is my Midwest is covered by more layers of history, it's my hope that one copy of this book might remain in some library and be found, years down the road, by someone who might say here's a tree rung, a bit of exposed ocean, a ghost ship, the record of what some writers said while sailing through this land, trying to make sense of it.”

"Tree rung" is probably a typo of "tree ring," but I like it. Tree rung makes me think of those giant, shelf-life mushrooms that sometimes grow out of trunks of old trees.