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Travel writing about places near and far, mixing on-site photography with scholarly reflection
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View fullsize The grave marker of Adele Brise in Champion near Door County.. composed in Walloon, related to French and still spoken in southern Belgium

What I’m reading,
Winter 2026:

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Boat out of Water

April 28, 2023
Tags: UP, Great Lakes, boat, preservation

Splendid Isolation

April 28, 2023
Tags: UP, Great Lakes, house, road, google earth

Narrow Road to the North

April 27, 2023
Tags: UP, forest, Great Lakes, road, travel

Spiritual Legibility

April 27, 2023
Tags: UP, self, evangelicalism, sign, spirituality, religion

Bessemer Remains

April 26, 2023
Tags: UP, google earth, city, mines

Extraction and Town Building

April 26, 2023
Tags: UP, city, laborers, forest, map

Bessemer in 1886

April 26, 2023
Tags: UP, city, mines, railway, map

Landscapes of the Car

April 25, 2023
Tags: UP, gas station, street scene, storage, cars

Across from the Courthouse

April 25, 2023
Tags: city, neighborhoods, street scene, house, american culture, UP

Red for Iron

April 25, 2023
Tags: city, mines, building, material, story, UP

Bessemer Threads

April 25, 2023
Tags: city, mines, building, stone, industrialism, sign, UP

Mining Machine

April 24, 2023
Tags: mines, machines, Northwoods, park, story, UP

Long Roads in the UP

April 24, 2023
Tags: Northwoods, vacation, road, view, forest, UP

Identity in the Forest

April 24, 2023
Tags: Northwoods, politics, forest, sign, road, Trump, UP

Pure Land

April 23, 2023
Tags: travel, wisconsin, road, sign, forest
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