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Accidental street art: riverside park

. . After days and days of staying home, because of a nasty cold, this was my first walk outside in Riverside Park.  Here we look south with the New Jersey skyline and the majestic Hudson river — Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk, or the “river that flows two ways,” as the Mohicans called it when they were still … Continue reading

Vivid past in Pompei and Herculaneum

  . . It is rare that we get a rush of recognition of the past as a vivid spectacle played by fellow humans, but this is what happens when you are confronted with the snapshots preserved in the volcanic ashes of Pompeji and the volcanic sludge descending on Herculaeum in 79 AD. (I was … Continue reading


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