Monday, June 30, 2014
Sunday, June 29, 2014
Ochopee, Florida, USA
Let's play Jeopardy. The answer is 'The one in Ochopee, Florida.' What's the question? 'What is the smallest post office in the United States?' It's located along the Tamiami Trail in the heart of the Everglades. [2003]
Saturday, June 28, 2014
Friday, June 27, 2014
Thursday, June 26, 2014
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
Genoa, Italy
What's the future of the giornalaio (newspaper vendor)? Ask Borders. What's the future of the telefono pubblico? Ask Bell (or Apple). Change is coming to urban landscapes everywhere, but the clock rising above the neighborhood piano offers hope. Even with the advent of wrist watches and cell phones, 'town clocks' have remained a part of city life. [2008]
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Monday, June 23, 2014
Cape Eleuthera, Eleuthera, The Bahamas
Do you recognize hydroponics when you see it? It's a technology that might move us all toward sustainable habitation of planet Earth. At Eleuthera's Island School, the central curricular question is: How can we live better in a place? That should be the central question of applied geography, too. [2014]
Sunday, June 22, 2014
Saturday, June 21, 2014
Taipei, Taiwan
Taiwan honors Matsu over and above all other deities. Her temples are everywhere and her parades plentiful. These maidens and their big ears remind everyone that listening is a two-way street: Listen for the voices of enlightened beings and know that the worthy ones hear us. It's also a reminder that Buddha had big ears. [2011]
Friday, June 20, 2014
Thursday, June 19, 2014
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Monday, June 16, 2014
Sunday, June 15, 2014
Cheyenne, Wyoming, USA
"The white man kills our game, captures our furs, and sometimes feeds his herds upon our meadows. And your great and mighty government . . . leaves us without the promised seed, without tools for cultivating the land, without implements for harvesting our crops." Chief Washakie of the Eastern Shoshone, now memorialized in front of Wyoming's Capitol. [2013]
Saturday, June 14, 2014
Ponce, Puerto Rico
Flag Day is today.
Fly the Stars and Stripes.
Fly them over Houston.
Unfurl them in Detroit.
Hoist them high in Boston,
U.S. territories, too.
For sure in Puerto Rico,
Where lions roar with pride
Especially in Ponce,
Which has a Leon on its side.
Does Old Glory mean Utopia
In the here and now?
Or, is it what were're striving for
as we gaze across the bow?
[2009]
Fly the Stars and Stripes.
Fly them over Houston.
Unfurl them in Detroit.
Hoist them high in Boston,
U.S. territories, too.
For sure in Puerto Rico,
Where lions roar with pride
Especially in Ponce,
Which has a Leon on its side.
Does Old Glory mean Utopia
In the here and now?
Or, is it what were're striving for
as we gaze across the bow?
[2009]
Friday, June 13, 2014
Sainte-Mère-Église, France
Is that a paratrooper hanging from the parapets of Sainte-Mère-Église? Indeed! It's been seventy years since le débarquement en Normandie, but the U.S. 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions are still honored by a grateful town, one of the first liberated from Nazi occupation. Want to know more? Read or watch The Longest Day. [2005]
Thursday, June 12, 2014
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Mastersonville, Pennsylvania, USA
There are various ways of curing tobacco. These leaves are spending a month or two in a tobacco barn being air cured, all under the watchful eye of the farmer. Over the past thirty years, though, conditions have changed so much in the tobacco industry that it would be hard to recapture a scene like this on the American landscape today. [1982]
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Monday, June 9, 2014
Sunday, June 8, 2014
Markham, Ontario, Canada
By building its fire stations to tell the time not just house the engines, the city government can provide yet one more service to the public. Here, the architecture exudes pride in a public sector that makes life better for residents of Markham. Perhaps there's even a coded message wrapped up in the tower: It's transparent. [2010]
Saturday, June 7, 2014
Friday, June 6, 2014
Thursday, June 5, 2014
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Tuesday, June 3, 2014
Monday, June 2, 2014
Sunday, June 1, 2014
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