There are times, on my morning drive to Diamond‘s offices in Hunt Valley, that I reach the Shawan Road exit on I-83 and, for a brief moment, I feel like I should just keep going. I’ve no idea where I go or what I’d do when I get there — wherever there is — butContinue reading “That Road Tripping Wanderlust”
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Anne of Green Gables, in Gaelic
Saturday morning, while browsing Facebook, I found an interested an unexpected article — Lucy Maud Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables is being translated into Scots Gaelic. The Canadian dialect of Gaelic was spoken on Prince Edward Island, though in declining numbers, at the time Montgomery’s novels were set, and I did not know that MontgomeryContinue reading “Anne of Green Gables, in Gaelic”
A New Viking Discovery in Canada
The potential discovery of another Viking settlement in Newfoundland is thrilling, especially because the site was found from space. It also doesn’t surprise me. The Vinland Sagas end around the year 1000. However, from other sources, such as the writings of Adam of Bremen, we know the Vikings’ activities in Vinland continued into the 13th-centuryContinue reading “A New Viking Discovery in Canada”
Passchendaele
I have always been fascinated by World War I. World War II has more things going for it — tank battles, bombing campaigns, the Normandy invasions, the Pacific theater — but World War I interests me more. Perhaps it’s the trenches. Perhaps the poetry. It may even be the futility and the waste. I haveContinue reading “Passchendaele”