Showing posts with label GEOG286. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GEOG286. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Belle Isle Memorial

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   Belle Isle  -- Beautiful Island Indeed In the middle of the Detroit River -- between the Detroit waterfront and the Riverside Drive in Wi...
Sunday, August 16, 2020

Shifting Wheels

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  Biking in Chicago (a city I now visit regularly) Image: David Schaper, NPR As people start to move about a little more -- perhaps too much...
Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Discovering Our Own Neighborhoods

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Atlas Obscura is always a trove of geographic insight; the geographically curious can spend hours perusing the online or print version. ...
Monday, May 25, 2020

Somerville Success

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As part of the CitiesX course I am taking online, I very much enjoyed this 2018 with Joe Curtatone, the mayor of Somerville, Massachusetts....
Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Beyond Translation

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My wife Pamela and I famously met in French class , and though her French is much better than mine (because she regularly  went  to that cla...
Sunday, October 27, 2019

Detroit Arts City

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It is time to propose one-credit honors colloquia for next fall, and I was beginning to think that my next topic should be Detroit, with a ...
Thursday, August 23, 2018

Azorean Tea

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Tea gardens of Cha Gorreana -- Photo: Kaizr I teach several courses each year on coffee, but some while ago I offered a one-credit honor...
Monday, June 25, 2018

Misplaced Confidence

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It is sad -- an inexplicable, really -- that the fisherfolk of Louisiana were counting on the current administration to protect fisheries f...