Here is a picture of Connie and 18 month-old Lauren at the excavation of a rock shelter at Ken Caryl Ranch in Jefferson County, just west of Denver. The work was conducted by the Colorado Archaeological Society in 1983 and we were there volunteering. I can’t recall the name of the young man standing by the …
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Cannibalism at Jamestown
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 …
Christina’s Blog
Another post I have been kicking down the road: my friend Christina Nealson’s blog. I kept trying to think of original ways to describe her vivid writing and books, her nomadic life, her heterodox feminism and her support of the Second Amendment… Finally I thought: why not just let her describe her visit? Come back …
Pigeons vs Humaniacs
Chris Landauer of Border Wars sent me a note a couple of weeks ago on the ARista’s war on pigeon racing. Since then I have been roaming the Internet, too busy and too pissed off to to write a calm essay on the kind of people who would persecute old men, some of them who …
Guadalupe
Tom Russell’s song from “Blood and Candle Smoke”, sung by Gretchen Peters, and Guadalupe herself, painted by Tom. You can see his paintings, including I believe the original of this print, at Rainbow Man gallery in Santa Fe. He began last week’s show with this haunting song. We do have an oddly eclectic “collection”– she …
True Biologist Cartoon
Courtesy of John Wilson… double or right click to enlarge.
Blast from the past
Picture of Lib and dog Ruch in the Escalante in ’73, when she used to walk to Everest Base Camp…
Wilson Photos
Relative newcomers John and Carolyn Wilson are becoming serious documenters of the phenology of local wildlife and photographers of same (with real lenses). They supply constant water on their forest- edge holding 12 miles from town, which has already paid off in photos of bandtail pigeon and goshawk. Now John has gotten a good portrait …
George Jones: 1933- 2013
A great country singer died today. This photo of him in the 70’s in NYC pre- dates photoshop. Andy Warhol, George, Tom Russell: George Jones, R.I.P.
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“… as soon as I went in the door I immediately recalled how great an experience a good bookstore was, to which the browsing we do on computers is as phone sex compared to sex.”– Michael Gruber