YouTube: photospeak productions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVStQV6uIsg The Ohio/Indiana Country (The Pioneer Trail, continued,...

Here I have added The Pioneer Trail: Cowboys, Indians and Pilgrims, Prologue and Chapter 1 (draft version, PDF). Previous blogs posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPu3v4cCbu4 This narrative focuses on the pre-revolutionary war period in American History that saw...

A gathering of ghosts, participants in the colonization of the eastern tidewater/New England US during the 18th century. The Pioneer Trail.

Two of possibly the most evil incidents in eastern US frontier history.

History of North America, continued

America's early colonization brought drastically different initial opinions and interactions between the settlers and the native...

https://youtu.be/FEsQD4Q1_6M (Video, 10 minutes) tap arrow photo (Part 1, Introduction) The beginning of an exploration of the...

Youtube video (Blog 14) 5 min. Jeb Elison did not tarry long in Fredericton. Curiosity drove him first downriver to the large New...

He was charming one moment, but coming out of a passing shadow Jeb can be dark and intense, aloof and judgmental in a single glance. His...

“The swallow has set her six young on the rail, and looks seaward.” James Lee’s Wife (1864, pt 3 st.1), Robert Browning Before Autumn...

The beauty of solar eclipses

I normally am not so affected emotionally when visiting a war memorial that the experience lodges in the back of my mind for months,...

The Olympic Peninsula, the last stop on a journey across the Canadian Rockies to Seattle.

Visitors to Vancouver Island and the Olympic Peninsula must cross the Strait of Juan de Fuca

I intended to complete this blog’s focus on last October's journey through western Canada by the Memorial Day weekend 2017. However,...

Cowboy Valley, Heart of BC I had lunch of sorts at the Coldwater Hotel in Merritt, British Columbia, located 50 miles south of Kamloops...

Yoho, the easternmost national park in British Columbia, is a name that anyone can like, while one of its landmark sites, Takakkaw Falls,...

Travel in Alberta, Canada

A Glance at the Columbia Glacier, Alberta, Canada When I glance at a picture, especially a photograph (whether on a wall or posted on a...