UNESCO status: Is delisting an effective deterrent?

The UNESCO World Heritage List. It has existed for decades. It contains nearly 1000 sites and areas. It has a…

Puritan Dilemma: A 17th Century Salem settler and a 1991 murder

“History is the story of events, with praise or blame.” – Cotton Mather I’ve never fully understood the general obsession…

US/Bolivia MOU Extended!

The US/Bolivia MOU has been extended! I and many other people have been on the edge of our seats over…

Jonestown vacation: Guyanese heritage?

The fella and I were talking about what we don’t know this morning. Specifically, which countries in the world that…

The Poe I didn’t know

This week I read The House of the Seven Gables for the first time and have been googling daguerrotypes like…

Singing Inka Princesses of the 1950s

Incidentally, there appears to be a whole mysterious world out there filled with dynamic Indigenous-chic Peruvian singers from the 1950s…

The Glory of Bolivian Silent Film: time traveling twice

Today is another day for silent film lust and desperation.Arthur Posnansky, everyone’s favorite fantastic and fantastical Bolivian archaeologist, produced a silent…

Changes in Altitude

Lately I have been working several days a week at a small museum that was once the home of a…

Ode to Andean Leaders in Indigenous Garb

Over the weekend I got myself characteristically worked up about Perú’s impending run-off election between “Cancer and AIDS” to quote…

Pox, leave thy damnable faces, and begin!

There are two known remaining samples of the smallpox virus (in Russia and the US) and they have been condemned…

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