Poem: Cross River Nocturne
Posted on Aug 27, 2007 | Last Updated Apr 12, 2008
American History
Minnesota, Koochiching County, winter, northern lights, dogs
"Simple Gifts," Aaron Copland, and the Swedish connection
Posted on Jul 3, 2009 | Last Updated Jul 4, 2009
a deeper look at the origin of "Simple Gifts"
Appalachian Spring, "Simple Gifts," Aaron Copland, Swedish folk music, jukeboxes, and Scandinavian America
HOW WE GOT WHERE WE ARE
Posted on Aug 20, 2007 | Last Updated Mar 19, 2008
The Third in The War for the Woods: a Trip Through Time
forest history, forest policy, American history
EGOLFS VOLDEMARS BAKUZIS
Posted on Mar 27, 2008 | Last Updated Apr 6, 2008
a brief reminiscence/memorial
Latvia, Germany, USSR, personal history, history of World War Two, immigrants, forestry, forest ecology, education, research, synecological coordinates, Baltic University
Jan Christiaan Smuts
Posted on Oct 31, 2008 | Last Updated Nov 3, 2008
a personality study of a conflicted genius
J.C. Smuts, psychology, personality study, history, South Africa, British Empire, Boer War, Louis Botha, cultural study, cosmology
IN THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND, by Michael Flynn
Posted on Aug 10, 2009 | Last Updated Aug 10, 2009
Book Review
Michaeel Flynn, Babbage, history, philosophy, personal history
ON AGING, Part 2
Posted on Mar 17, 2008 | Last Updated Apr 6, 2008
more about senility
old age, health, personal history, senility, strokes, the brain
Newsletter, June 2010
Posted on Jun 23, 2010 | Last Updated Jun 24, 2010
newsletter and Miscon report
philosophy, science fiction, free books
HEALTH REFORM AND THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT (Sept 21, 2009)
Posted on Sep 20, 2009 | Last Updated Jan 12, 2010
Thoughts on the subjects
health care reform, philosophy, government, steamships, Lake Superior, 1948, Superior Wisconsin, Sault Ste, Marie, merchant marine hospitals