Recent Posts

Mark Twain House and Museum
calendar_today October 27, 2022

If you ever find yourself in Connecticut, I highly recommend your itinerary include a visit to a particular National Historic Landmark—the once home of prolific American writer Mark Twain.


Map of Taiwan
calendar_today August 23, 2022

There is a growing sense of confidence in China, bordering on hubris. Nowhere does this confidence find more outlet than in the commonly used expression “there is only one China.”


Image of the sky above Fraser Park.
calendar_today May 8, 2022

In this video and text, I pay tribute to Fraser Park by taking the viewer through a cycle of seasons beginning Summer 2021 and ending Spring 2022.


Image of Yeocomico Church.
calendar_today Apr 29, 2022

Robert Selfe immigrated from south-west England to the nascent colony of Virginia. On May 20, 1665 he was granted 300 acres in the Northern Neck.


Portrait of a 21-year old Werumeus Buning
calendar_today Apr 15, 2022

J.W.F. Werumeus Buning was a writer and poet, born in Velp, Netherlands on May 4, 1891. In this post I share my version of an English translation for the poem Een oud vers, An old verse.


Jack Dempsey's Barbeque Pit
calendar_today Apr 1, 2022

The South-Central Georgia Folklife Project was produced as a joint effort between the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress and the Arts Experiment Station of Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College in Tifton, Georgia. The vast collection contains nearly 25,000 items. One of these items recently captured my attention: an oral history with my great-grandfather conducted on Tuesday, July 26th, 1977.