The National Trust for Historic Places just released its 26th annual Most Endangered Historic Places List, a yearly collection of America’s heritage sites at risk. Some are in coastal areas with ties to America’s nautical heritage, from a Massachusetts lighthouse to a salmon cannery in Alaska, all with fascinating historical import. To wit: Gay Head …
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Documerica was an initiative by the Environmental Protection Agency that employed freelance photographers to capture environmental scenes in their own backyards. Between 1971 and 1977, citizen naturalists documented urban pollution, national parks, folklore traditions, farming, wetland ecosystems, forests and everyday life in the 1970s. Inspired by Documeria, Natural History Theatre will interpret a photograph from …
Is it OK that I find this alarming? The Library of Congress has announced its acquisition of a version of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, Or The Whale completely translated into emojis. Yes, those smartphone-friendly pictographs of happy faces, hearts, cupcakes and, perhaps in this case, Physeter macrocephalus. According to the LOC, a data engineer named Fred …