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From the Tree to the Table: The Journey of a Brave Little Orange
Packing house workers, Redlands, 1950s. From Nathan Gonzales of A.K. Smiley Public Library, via Marketplace. Reinvention and resilience across the nationRead more Here's a link to Marketplace's report...
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Our New Issue Is Out
Through the bounty of Fox TV, a statue on the waterfront of Eastport, Maine. Details below.The next issue of the magazine is out just now. It's best read and enjoyed in print (the perfect gift!), but...
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Thinking About Iran in 2013, by Thinking About China in 1971
Nixon in Beijing, 1972, via WikipediaWhat follows has no seasonal relevance, unless you consider this the time of Peace on Earth, Goodwill Toward Men. For your background processing during family...
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Our New Champion in Self-Defeating Soft Power: Japan
Main hall of Yasukuni Shrine, via Wikipedia. At first I didn't believe the news this evening that Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe had visited Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. I didn't...
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A School With a Sense of Place
By Deborah Fallows. We arrived at The Grove School in Redlands, California, just before their winter break, at about noon and right in time for lunch. Reinvention and resilience across the nationRead...
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Why Yasukuni Is Different From Auschwitz
Prison photos of Nobusuke Kishi, one-time Japanese prime minister and grandfather of current prime minister Abe, via Wikipedia.Last night I was so amazed/regusted by news that Japan's prime minister,...
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Crowdsourcing the Yasukuni Question: From Tokyo to Philadelphia
Ronald Reagan kicks off his 1980 presidential campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi. Photo found here.For those joining us late: two days ago, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made a well-publicized...
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Next in our Special Series: Gas-Price Rise Means Drivers Pay More
Front page headline in the WSJ today. Headlines are harder to write than you would think, especially for a one-column story like this. And the article itself is very interesting, so no offense to...
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Why Yasukuni Matters: The Snarls of Asian History
Million Vet March this year, via Yahoo.I hadn't expected to devote so much space to the ramifications of Shinzo Abe's recent visit to the Yasukuni shrine. For a catchup on previous discussion, see...
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A City's Turning Points
Orange packing-house label from early 20th century, with then-realistic view, via Boston Public Library.In this month’s magazine and in some previous posts plus a Marketplace segment with Kai Ryssdal,...
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But Wait, There's More: Yasukuni, Arlington, Doolittle, and LeMay
It turns out that there is more to say on the Yasukuni Shrine/ 靖国神社 / history's-burden theme. For background see previous installments one, two, three, and four. Jimmy Doolittle, via Wikipedia."I knew...
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On the Character of a Community: What Local Narratives Emphasize, and Leave Out
Cover image from Faithfully and Liberally Sustained, an entire book, by local historians Larry Burgess and Nathan Gonzales, about the philanthropic tradition in a small Southern California...
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A New Year Starts, an Era Ends
Happy New Year! And one reading tip for starting off the year is the latest issue of The Washington Monthly, which is shown at right and has a lot of great stories. I could go on about them in detail....
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'Stop Talking About Yasukuni; the Real Problem Is Yūshūkan'
Yushukan, the Japanese military-history museum in Tokyo near Yasukuni Shrine. The story goes on. For background see previous installments one, two, three, four, and five. Now, another angle: that the...
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An American Dream: A YMCA With a Circus
Performer at the Great Y Circus in Redlands, California.By Deborah Fallows For those of you who have always dreamed of running off to join the circus, here is a close second: move to Redlands,...
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Yasukuni, Yūshūkan: Yes, There Is More
Detail from the memorial to Confederate heroes Davis, Lee, and Jackson at Stone Mountain, Ga.The story goes on. For background see previous installments one, two, three, four, five, and six. But we may...
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Because We Haven't Heard About My Favorite Coventry-Based Band in a While ...
I give you, yes, The Fallows, a rising indie-acoustic band from the English Midlands who for understandable reasons have commanded attention in our household since their debut in 2012. Tragically none...
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Luck? Planning? Karma? The Elements of a Small Town's High-Tech Success
Here is the "reinvention and resilience" theme I will try to deal with in this post and in coming days: What is the combination of planning, public choice, private character, historic legacy and "path...
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Three Crashes: Aspen CO, Buckhannon WV, Melbourne FL
1) Colorado. This afternoon a private jet crashed, with at least one fatality, at the Aspen airport. Here is one of several online reports from people at the airport or in other planes: What is...
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Why Do Tech Companies End Up Where They Are?
Two days ago I mentioned that Redlands, California, posed a question similar to one we'd encountered in Burlington, Vermont. Namely: what were sizable but standalone Internet-based tech companies doing...
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