by Stephen J. Simurda | Jan 10, 2008 | The Public Humanist
I’m not sure what it is about journalists, but I know of no other profession whose practitioners spend as much time gnashing their teeth about what they’ve done wrong or the overall problems of the field. At times journalists can seem almost obsessed with...
by Heather Brandon | Jan 15, 2008 | The Public Humanist
Last fall, Los Angeles blogger Tony Pierce announced he would be leaving his position as editor of LAist.com to work at the LA Times in a new position running the newspaper’s 30 blogs.Soon after the news broke, I learned about it over lunch with Bill Densmore,...
by Pleun Clara Bouricius | Jan 23, 2008 | The Public Humanist
"Get out! Get out now!" Thus starts John Stilgoe’s Outside Lies Magic (1998). Outside, argues the dean of landscape studies, you find traces of the past. And if you look closely, you can be transported from your day-to-day pursuits to another world...
by Barbara Pelissier | Jan 25, 2008 | The Public Humanist
“Future generations will dwell with the fondness and affection of children upon every memento of their fathers.” –Charles Delano, 1856 From Westhampton ~ How interesting it would be to see my own town’s landscape and the distant hills beyond...
by Patricia Bruttomesso | Jan 30, 2008 | The Public Humanist
On a mid-July morning in 1863, W. J. Young, a lumber manufacturer in eastern Iowa wrote to a customer explaining why his order for milled lumber had been delayed; "My men that I expected this morning I found have gone to the harvest fields and I don’t know...
