Tag Archives: heritage
Nepal: Where Everest is King (of the currency)

Up until 2007 the Nepalese rupee featured a portrait of the King of Nepal. This is in keeping with other…

Day 2: The Zoo

Poor sleep: no malaria dreams, but a dog whose sole purpose on earth, it thought, was to bark all night….

New Town tourism: brutal adventures at Glenrothes

A ‘New Town’ in the UK sense is a planned city meant for post-WWII population dispersal. They are known for…

Preserving a traffic cone: Glasgow’s statue topping tradition is under threat.

What is heritage? Is it the physical remains of the past? The literal, tangible objects of art? The physical bits…

Blessings of the “dark” Virgin of the lake OR Copacabana, where the cars wear lil’ hats.

I’ve spent the past two months in Bolivia and this weekend I was in Copacabana, a beautiful and ancient town…

Walmart and the destruction of Mexican Heritage

I have just written a guest post for Union Solidarity International about the construction of a Walmart at the World Heritage Site of…

Lord of the Rings remains and A Very Hobbit Christmas in Middle Earth

I am often in New Zealand…at least more often than I am in various other places. While here I tend…

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…

Changes in Altitude

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

A National Legacy at Risk in the Digital Age

“The State of Recorded Sound Preservation in the United States: A National Legacy at Risk in the Digital Age”

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