Quirky thoughts from an old man.
“It is not down in any map; true places never are.”
Herman Melville
Melville who wrote Moby Dick among other classics also made this cryptic comment. I was impressed that he ended the sentence with a verb.
The map is from the cover of The Mapping of California as an Island. it was part of the Border Map collection that I donated to the ASU School of Transborder Studies about ten years ago.
“Lichen are Fungi that took up farming with Algae.”Dr Frank Bungartz, ASU Continue reading “Lichen”
On Friday night November 1 I went down to ASU to see the reopening of the Imagined Borders map exhibit at the School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State University. It was nice to see many old friends and old maps again. I was asked to make a few remarks about the exhibition which is well hung and has a very nice gallery guide with an overly flattering brief bio of me.
The exhibit is open to the public contact the School of Transborder Studies to get details. Here are my notes for the remarks I was asked to make at the opening: Continue reading “Imagined Borders Update”