Shoreham-by-Sea Summons up the freshness of America and the Frontier: Marked Tree, Arkansas.
Category Archives: Travels
American Names.
18-Mar-11On the Road.
17-Mar-11http://dnasab.net/project/dnasab-video-sculpture-24/ Abandoned farmhouse north of Hannibal, Missouri.
In Greenville, Mississippi.
16-Mar-11I camped out in the Delta National Forest last night, and took breakfast in Greenville. A group of eight or nine older white folks was sitting around a big table in the center of a Main-Street diner. One reported that a “black man’s head” had just been found by the police, the second murder in […]
More Ruins.
15-Apr-10Along the line of the Detroit Safari postings before, a list of some of the world’s best modern ruins. With excellent pictures and some links. Some of the images of Detroit call to mind Piranesi, and the ones of Gary suggest Caspar David Friedrich. http://www.thecoolist.com/abandoned-places-10-creepy-beautiful-modern-ruins/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35537878/ns/us_news-weird_news/?GT1=43001
The Packard Plant in Detroit.
06-Nov-09The Packard Plant was the target of this past year’s Detroit Safari; now it gets some treatment in the Wall Street Journal. Apparently some enterprising hipsters pushed a dumptruck out of the 4th floor of the building. How it got to the 4th floor of the abandoned plant is another question. There’s video of the […]
Molokai.
21-Oct-09The Vatican just canonized Fr. Peter Damien, which gives me a great excuse to remember some of the good parts of my trip to Hawaii last year. I spent most of my time on Molokai, the small island where Peter Damien lived. Really all I need to show are images, which are extraordinary enough. And […]
In Wyoming.
04-Oct-09I’ve been in Lander, Wyoming for the past few days, at Wyoming Catholic College, for one of their twice-yearly Latin immersion weekends. The students all speak Latin from Friday evening to Sunday afternoon, cycling through various activities. This weekend it’s readings from the Fathers, games in Latin, talking about love, little skits, nature walks (which […]
The Ohio Valley.
06-Aug-09I spend the night just south of Youngstown. All day I had in my head the great song about Youngstown, the most expressive piece of art I know about these “rust belt” towns. Once they were iron, now rust. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVXYzcb3r-w
New Content for the Internet.
11-Jan-10I had the pleasure of going over the Hamilton Fish Bridge on I-84 twice today (that’s the (Hamilton Fish) Bridge, not the Hamilton (Fish Bridge), by the way). It’s named for one of the Hamilton Fishes, a family of New York politicians. There were several of the name, and like Roman Marcus Claudius Marcelluses or […]