Tag Archives: History

What It Is to Scale the Heights

Posted on 22 March 2015 by Isabel Gibson

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, … Continue reading →

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Edumacation and Unedification

Posted on 10 October 2012 by Isabel Gibson

One of a miscellany of short observations from a trip to Scotland. It is our first full day in Scotland, and full is the operative word. We sleep late, figure out how to use the tricky switched electrical sockets, resist … Continue reading →

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The View From Ten Thousand Feet

Posted on 23 September 2012 by Isabel Gibson

After hours of intermittent dozing in a space so cramped you couldn’t put convicts in it without provoking human rights complaints, my point of view is a tad jaundiced. All I want is to be once again in a place where throwing garbage on the floor is socially unacceptable. Continue reading →

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