Loudville is the name of a small village in the area on the Easthampton and Westhampton line that was the nearest settlement during mining activity (2). The Loudville Lead mines are some of the oldest colonial mines in the US. Discovered by Robert Dyer in the late 1670s (1), they ex...
Although, as her Wikipedia page puts it, Kerr “is largely unknown to contemporary readers and her books are long out of print,” she had ten novels to her name by the time she was enlisted to work on this project and was a frequent contributor of magazine fiction. In theory, The Woman...
ALEXANDER the Great discovered India. That happened three hundred years before the birth of Christ.But Alexander did not get very far beyond the Indus River, and although he crossed the Punjab, the home of the Sikhs, he never penetrated the heart of the country of the true Hindus who ...
“We set out to explore the Moon and instead discovered the Earth. The sense of isolation- and closeness of our humanity. I wish more people would think on it. (Astronaut Frank Borman.) “We felt we were going there to show you the Moon. No! We went to the Moon; we learned a lot...
the governor did just that by making the downtown area a state historic park. Visitors can now feel and see what it was actually like back in its heyday. See merchants dressed in 1850’s attire. Coal smoke wafting in the air from the blacksmith shop. A stagecoach pulling into town. And...
When Christmas Eve came, the family wasn’t able to afford to decorate their tree. In tears, the children went to bed. The next morning, when the family woke up, they discovered their tree covered in cobwebs. On opening the windows, the morning light touched the strands of webs, turning...
I discovered The Wave Pictures when I volunteered to cover, for another illustrious internet publication, Brooklyn Vegan’s pre-SXSW party at the Knitting Factory. At first it was pretty much as expected: swarms of overzealous photographers, PBR sponsorship, lots of dazed-looking but pretty people...
Likemany ecologistsI have a fascination with the scientific names that attach themselves to species. Sometimes these celebrate the person who discovered or described the species*, or a benefactor, or are made as a tribute to a notable person. One that I recently stumbled across is the South Am...
unattractive towns along the way – Decazeville was a good example. A coal and steel town that has suffered from closures over the years with half the local shops, restaurants and hotels boarded up. But there was one silver lining that I discovered there – a small micro brewery, Mousses...
Discovered the latest technical and operational developments within the industry. Eurocoke 2024 attendees included, ArcelorMittal, Tata Steel, thyssenkrupp, Coquecol, Warrior Met Coal, Steel Mont, Ternium Brazil, Tathya.Earth, GMK Centre, JSW, Fosbel, Anglo American, SMS Group, KazKomir Company, Te...