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It's 1 o'clock on an Easter morning (does 1 a.m. count as part of Easter morning?), and I'm in the middle of grading, but I was ...

This afternoon my son and I were looking for something to do while we were in Quincy, and of course his thoughts turned to trains. He wanted...

Today was fairly warm, up to the upper 60s (really the calm before the storm, since they're predicting 6" of snow for Friday). So t...

My son and I had some time this morning while my wife was teaching in Quincy, and I had seen something about the Granite Railway Incline Pla...

Here's a poem I wrote about Uncle Erich back in 1985 after I spent a summer in Allentown living with the Salomons and working at Salomon...

Sunday my wife and I went to a screening of Will Tiao's movie, Formosa Betrayed . Based on historical events, it tells the story of an A...

The spring semester here ends in mid-April, which means that a lecturer like me typically wouldn't see a paycheck between the end of Apr...

I haven't written much about my "return" to the US in 2011--I'm not even sure I am comfortable calling it a "return...

Little did I know when I was writing posts on this popular theme that they would culminate in a trip to this historic site: Home o...

I finally got to meet another of my dissertation interviewees in person last Thursday (6/23). Dr. Thomas B. Gold , who was an Oberlin rep to...