For this adventure, I started in Seattle where I was working with a couple of amazing performers on a new piece! In examining how landscape (geography) impacts the development of values, identity and culture, the sea must be considered as a part of that landscape....
Read MoreThere is a saying that history is written by the winners. During any conflict, one version of “the facts” grow to mythical proportions, while the realities of the opposition are scattered like dust in the wind. During the American Revolution, the American rebels fought not...
Read MoreOn this exploratory road trip, Maryland was my delightful surprise; West Virginia was my purpose. For me, West Virginia has represented a mythical place – the Idaho of the east – made up of hardy people with tenacity, fortitude, tradition and character. So much...
Read MoreThe 135 mile Great Allegheny Passage trail was completely unknown to me when I arrived in the Cumberland Visitor Center. Seen as the extension of the C & O canal towpath, it is part of the larger network of hiking/biking trails called the Potomac...
Read MoreCumberland, Maryland, straddled between West Virginia and Pennsylvania, is the terminus of one great historic trail, the C & O Canal towpath, and the beginning of another, the Great Allegheny Passage, or the GAP as it is affectionately called. Encompassing both is a larger network...
Read MoreLarge numbers of people choose to experience only the familiar - the known. They’ll download a favorite song; attend a museum exhibit of artist they “know” about, or attend a concert they know already (or one that their friends “know” to be good). They’ll limit...
Read MoreI wasn’t planning to even go to Gettysburg, much less write about it. “No National Parks” I said (though technically, it’s a national military park). Not much of a civil war buff, I thought to myself, “I’ve visited Vicksburg; they’re both pivotal civil war burgs,...
Read MoreAs a descendant of the Schorr brewers of Lonnerstadt Bavaria, over 300 years of beer making runs through my veins. Family legend purports of a Richard Strauss connection …but I digress. As a Schorr, I feel it is my duty to expand the palette of...
Read MoreWhen we talk about “land”, we use solid topographical descriptors, conjuring up fixed landscapes whose changes evolve far too slowly to notice. However, Mother Nature dramatically transforms the landscape with much more frequency and regularity – day by day – most noticeably season by season. Think...
Read MoreThe culture of place is more than the sum of impressive buildings and institutions. Culture may emanate from place but it takes passionate people with strong beliefs to make a life in a place. To me, some of the most culturally interesting parts of Dallas...
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