Clark’s Lookout, MN
Exploring with Lewis and Clark.
Category: Through History
Observations about and from history: the world at war, the making of nations, the changes in cultures.
Hurricane Isabel and Me
A reflection on my own experience of Hurricane Isabel in 2003.
In the Face of Dreadful Odds
“That’s a story every Australian knows and, now, you do too.” I stand there, brought up short. It isn’t the first time. It’s been all of four hours since we met our Melbourne tour guide. We can see he’s lanky and given to vaguely Outbackish hats, but we’re still getting …
What It Is to Scale the Heights
Putting genteel Georgia behind us, we angle across rural northern Florida to the Gulf Coast and hang a right. And then we drive. And drive. Most of those two days in early January is spent on the who-knew-it-was-so-wide Florida panhandle, an on-the-face-of-it ridiculous allocation of coastline that undoubtedly reflects some …
Yellow Stars & Uniforms
Will we triumph over evil?