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  • Under Construction!

    Under Construction!

    If you’re reading this, you need to know this site is going to be a little wonky for the next few days. I’ve been working out concepts for awhile, and I finally have a fabulous new design. So, now I’m in the throes of actually making it all work!

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    What will it be like? Fresh. Curated. Restructured. Easy to Navigate. Multi-faceted (including several new interest subjects). And, as I build it out, it will allow you to make travel plans to see the various sites of my research for yourself.

  • London… Once a Breath Away from Extinction

    London… Once a Breath Away from Extinction

    With apologies for being offline for so long, this is the first of four articles that all grew out of what I expected to be a single, quick article about our visit to the “Crown and Treaty” in the outer London town of Uxbridge. Built in the 1500’s as an elaborate private home, this fascinating building still stands, and was the home of the 1645 Uxbridge Treaty Negotiations. In what has become the usual fashion for me, more thoughtful reading of accounts about the negotiations and Sir Richard Lane’s role brought me to details that struck me as unexpected and intriguing–off-topic “threads” hanging from the edges of the story. Such are the entrances of “rabbit holes” from which I have dragged more surprising insights than I’d ever have thought possible. This particular one is about the surprising trajectory of London–one of the world’s great cities, and an international treasure that once suffered a calamitous decline, and spent many decades as an abandoned ruin.

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