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Weedon Island Preserve
Weedon Island Preserve is a 3100-acre county park located in St Petersburg, Florida. It is a wildlife refuge encompassing a series of islands in Tampa Bay, consisting mostly of mangrove swamp and slash pine/cabbage palmetto scrub. But its primary importance is as an archaeological site, centered…
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Archie G. Norcross’ Maine Forest Fire Maps (1918–22)
Circular maps custom-made for the fire towers that once dotted the American wilderness.
From The Public Domain Review
A Road Trip To The Alps and Dolomites
About three years ago I watched a YouTube video of a couple of trail runners running the Alta Via 2 in the Dolomites. It’s a 100 mile route through the Dolomite mountains in northern Italy and as soon as I watched them I realised I had to go there. Not to run the route, but … Read more
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Diagrams for Travel from the Qanoon-e-Islam (1832)
Diagrams from a now-lost Urdu manuscript illustrating the propitious days and directions for travel.
From The Public Domain Review
Even Littler Johns
The incredible Small Numbers in Color, 1959, that Jasper Johns loaned to the Philadelphia Museum for the 2021 retrospective is [again?/still?] on view there. We saw it last weekend after the Duchamp show, and it was [again?/still?] fantastic. I have done nothing to find out what the back of the wood…
From Kagi Small Web
Surprise! Largs Community Garden (hidden in the train station)
There’s a definite phenomenon arising from NOT crawling around a place you visit, and examining it in detail. Although I’ve walked from the northern extend of the town, where I found various things, including Lord Kelvin’s house, and gone as … Continue reading →
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