Mackinac Bridge
The Straits of Mackinac feel to me–as a historian–defined by relations between Native peoples and Europeans. The fur trade. Battles […]
St. Ignace
Last weekend my wife and I went to St. Ignace, which is just over the Mackinac Bridge in the Upper […]
Modena
Last week my wife and I visited her family in Italy, for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic shut […]
Desert Passages in Page, AZ
Page, Arizona, is a creation of the Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell that dates to the late 1950s. It […]
Grand Canyon
This is a few of my favorites from the Grand Canyon, this past week. My wife and I went to […]
Week 41 – Arcadia
This weekend I spent some time photographing near Arcadia, Michigan. It’s on the “West Coast” of Michigan, a couple of […]
Week 4 – Leaving Maui, Going Home
Our last full day in Maui, Monday, was a bit lazy. We did a humid but pretty hike in Kapalua, […]
Week 3 – Maui
It’s not quite paradise in Hawaii. Paradise wouldn’t be quite so humid, and it would not be so crassly touristy. […]
Week 42 – Flyover Country
I’m a Midwesterner, geographically, so I get a bit annoyed at times by East Coast and West Coast folk who […]
Week 34 – Gatineau,QC
Vacation, Week # 2. We went from the craziness of Ironman Mont Tremblant to the relative quiet of Gatineau, Quebec, […]
Ironman – Part II
For a spectator, an Ironman race is a mix of waiting and boredom, wondering what’s going on with your athlete(s), […]
Week 33 – Ironman Mont Tremblant
Vacation, Week # 1. We have gorgeous weather. Beautiful scenery. Quebecois accents. And a couple thousand crazy people swimming 2.4 […]
Week 32 – On the Road
This weekend I was on the road visiting family. One thing I like about the drive is seeing windmills along […]
Week 30 – Leaving D.C.
After two productive weeks in D.C. at the Library of Congress, I’m heading back home. I’m tired of Senator Henry […]
Week 29 – Library of Congress in a Heatwave
This week I’ve been in Washington, DC, doing research at the Library of Congress, looking at the papers of Henry […]
Trip to Philly Last Year
About a year ago I went to a conference on Philly. I did not have time to walk around and […]
Harbors
In Traverse City and the Leelanau Peninsula this weekend, I ended up photographing water and harbors, mostly. I thought about […]
Week 21 – Water
The water of the West Arm of Grand Traverse Bay in northern Michigan, specifically. I spend the weekend in the […]
Airports and Christmas
This Christmas my wife and I traveled to Italy to visit family. It was week of food and family, interspersed […]
Reflections in St. Louis
This week I spent three days in St. Louis, at a conference for new department and division chairs at colleges […]
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