We are headed back from New Mexico and decide to get off the interstate highways and bear Northeast ward toward home. Our journey takes us diagonally through Kansas, Oklahoma and Nebraska. They are wide expansive prairie states. The towns we pass through seem haunting. Many are one to three thousand people in population and they …
The last big hit was Laurence Welk and he passed through this region a decade or two before. I was given the one hundred and thirty five dollars cash and directed to drive my bosses 1959 Desoto to Chandler Minnesota. I drove forty miles to only bank in South West Minnesota that would write out …
Prior to 1820 most everybody in Europe professed or believed the world was 7 thousand years old (aprox) Everyone was clucking about and making little sense of anything. A man by the name of William Smith was a surveyor and was employed to create canals throughout Great Britain. His mission was to create canals that …
Today was the British equivalent of the U.S. Veterans /Memorial Day. It is called Remembrance Day. In the crowded Heathrow Airport packed with tens of thousands of people the din was as loud as a London subway headed to Piccadilly Circus and then all fell silent, A young girl came over the sound system and …
Some years ago I purchased a book called “Traditional Shops of London-STILL OPEN” by Black Dog Press. It was a book that created a photo essay and story of the stores and shops that are over one hundred and twenty five years old in continuous operation. The credits went to the author and to the …
If I work doggedly and remain financially responsible I can spend a week in London once every two years. I can explore and indulge my interests in everything London. After ten or fifteen years it has become a continuing saga. Tonight the moon is at half phase so it is extra dark, almost foggy and …
ROADNOTES-A PURPOSE BUILT HOTEL-THE RUSSELL-LONDON It was daybreak and I was just a few doors from the Horse Hospital by Russell Square Station. My bedroom window was street side. I could hear the voices of workmen heading to their jobs. First a half dozen and then dozens and then perhaps a hundred or more. My …
Buckminster’s Geodesic home can be found in Carbondale, Illinois. He taught there for sometime at Southern Illinois University. Enclosed is a photo of one of “Bucky’s” friends, a mutual friend of mine. Occasionally we hang out in Carbondale with Ornothologists,Geologists, Anthropologists, Archeologists, Botanists and Paleontologists. Buckminster popularized the concepts of geodesic domes and their usefulness …
The pine trees on SailBoard Beach list five degrees off vertical it causes me to wonder and ponder and expound. The tree has made concessions because of incessant wind. The word that describes a plant and it being effected by wind borne elements is called “flagging”. The wind is so consistent in its South and …
The Treaty of Breda-Banda Islands 1667 Today few people know of the Banda Sea, the Banda Islands, few people know the past geopolitical importance. Once considered some of the most commercially strategic islands in the world, their locations were considered national secrets. The spice trade in the 1600’s created more capital gains than any other …