Author: Reid Farmer

The Smithsonian Institution had a press release yesterday that was picked up the the New York Times today concerning the discovery of evidence of cannibalism in the early years of the Jamestown colony in Virginia. To anyone familiar with the story of Jamestown, this is hardly a surprise, as a number of accounts of the “starving …

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After Steve’s post I thought I would put up this picture of the beautiful PP diorama in the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. If I remember correctly it is set somewhere in Iowa. 

Less than a week after I posted Faulkner’s famous quote from Requiem for a Nun, the NY Times uses a play on it to announce the recent discovery of some “lost” Faulkneriana that is going to auction this summer. A box found in a barn on Faulkner’s daughter’s farm near Charlottesville, Virginia contained manuscripts, letters, and a …

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Bison are bigger and stronger than you are. Believe me, they really are. And it’s a really really good idea not to annoy them. Unless your life’s ambition is to be a Darwin Award Winner. 

…….we weren’t invited

There comes a time in life when you realize that everything is a dream. Only those things that have been written down have any possibility of being real. That’s all that exists in the end: what’s been written down. – James Salter

The past is never dead. It’s not even past. – William Faulkner, Requiem for a Nun

There’ll be no editing. This book was dictated by the Holy Ghost. – Jack Kerouac, upon being told his manuscript of On the Road (typed onto a 120 ft. roll of teletype paper) would need to be cut into pages for editing.

I figured I’d post a few more pictures from the “Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age” exhibit for all you friends of the Pleistocene. Here’s a different view of the mammoth model. We noticed lots of people wanted to pose for pictures standing right under the mammoth’s tail. Here’s a head-on view of the …

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