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    Tracy Kugler
    • Jan 25, 2018
    • 6 min

    Moments in Horton Park

    Half a block from my house is a park that my daughters have dubbed, “the park with the trees.” Horton Park was established in the late 19...

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    Sarah Richman
    • Jan 10, 2018
    • 6 min

    Between the Lines

    Growing up as a Jewish American, I’d always been presented with a glossy, all-welcoming version of Israel--a homeland away from home that wo

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    Ceri Morgan
    • Oct 12, 2017
    • 3 min

    Weak Spot

    Photo of the aftermath of the Aberfan mining disaster. Source: BBC The following short story was inspired by the 50th anniversary of the...

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    Julie Urbanik
    • Mar 15, 2017
    • 9 min

    The Urbanik Preserve: Discovering You are On The Map

    I opened the envelope from my parents and pulled out a slightly crinkled tri-fold brochure from the East Haddam Conservation Commission. ...

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    Dr. Lakhbir K. Jassal
    • Sep 14, 2016
    • 5 min

    Yoga, Death and the Art of Letting Go: A Personal Narrative

    There are many who say the path of yoga, or the inner tradition, is primarily concerned with inner freedom. My grandparents embedded the ...

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    Jessica Jacobs
    • Jul 28, 2016
    • 6 min

    Doreen Massey: Reflections from a Paper Age

    Most official biographies of Doreen Massey, who died earlier this year at the age of 72, will tell you she was an internationally renowne...

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    Trip Wolfskehl
    • Jun 9, 2016
    • 4 min

    A very brief history of America's nautical charts

    Not too long ago almost all of our goods arrived to us by sail. Navigation by sea is now done mostly with the use of computer and GPS (g...

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    Ceri Morgan
    • Apr 21, 2016
    • 2 min

    San Francisco sigh

    Ding. ‘Next stop, Chinatown. Little Italy, Union Square’. The Mason-Powell line. ‘Everybody gets off on the trolley’. The rattle and rumb...

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    Julie Urbanik
    • Apr 21, 2016
    • 3 min

    San Francisco memories after visiting for a conference

    I can’t. I don’t know how. I’m tired. My mind is full and blank. I leave San Francisco and I begin. I begin to return, to remember, ...

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    Connie L. Johnston
    • Apr 21, 2016
    • 5 min

    Escape from the Tenderloin

    I’ve been back a couple of weeks from the American Association of Geographers conference in San Francisco and my post-conference weekend ...

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    Julie Urbanik
    • Mar 22, 2016
    • 6 min

    Outrage, Geography, and Cecil the Lion

    An American trophy hunter, a British conservation group, and a Zimbabwean lion. It might be mistaken as the opening of clever joke, but ...

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    Stentor Danielson
    • Mar 22, 2016
    • 5 min

    Places Familiar and Fantastical

    In the spring of 2014, I was struck with inspiration to draw a map of my home city of Pittsburgh in the style of a map from a fantasy nov...

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