I made my first visit to New York City after 9/11 in May 2003, after I had attended an academic conference on the Second World War at Princeton University, After I got into Manhatten, I took the subway to Ground Zero to see for myself and take some photographs. (An old film camera with Ektachrome) […]
In honour of St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, 2025, a foggy and rainy day at the famous ancient Bronze Age Dun Aengus (Anglicized) fort on the Isle of Aran, County Galway, Ireland. I visited Dún Aonghasa (Irish) during a trip to Ireland in the spring of 1978. Ancestry says I am 16% Irish.
It was forty years ago, in August, 1980, that a friend and I drove from Vancouver, BC, where I was living at the time, to spend a weekend at Florence, Oregon, which inspired Frank Herbert to write the famous novel Dune. Like many at the time, I was entranced by Dune as soon as I […]