cultural history

  • Hearing History

    ~posted by Jenny C. I’m a fan of history – reading books based in historical times (yes, sometimes even the romances), enjoying biographies of interesting people, delighting in extensive footnotes, and recreating historical activities, like folk dancing and fencing. What I like even better is experiencing original materials – all the weird and wonderful vocabulary… Continue reading

  • Reading Jack Nisbet

    I first learned about Jack Nisbet when I was visiting my Aunt Noreen in Chewelah, Washington. Jack had just released his book Sources of the River: Tracking David Thompson across Western North America and was working on his next book, Purple Flat Top: In Pursuit of a Place, a collection of short stories about the… Continue reading