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After years abroad, Melissa A Watkins moved back to the US, settling in Boston. Would peeking behind the veil to see the real Boston convince her to stay or reinforce her growing discomfort with US culture?
The Statesider, Issue 65: Back “home” in Boston, park overpopulation, getting down in Puget Sound, and looking up at an icon. Plus, a newly public archive from the Smithsonian and a primate park-and-ride.
The Statesider, Issue 64: Big whales, small harbor, Native control of national parks, hot potatoes, surfing for everyone, Black Wall Street reborn (twice), and important pants.
A photo essay on Depoe Bay, Oregon, home to the smallest navigable harbor on the West Coast. Today, the town is transitioning from a working fishing port to a town focused on whale watching and tourism.
For a time, Rachel-Heston Davis suffered from lilapsophobia: the unhealthy fear of tornadoes. (If you had asked her at the time, she would’ve told you it was quite healthy, in fact totally rational, to fear tornadoes.) That fear turned to fascination over time, and a particular fascination with the many memorials to historic tornadoes across… Read More
The Statesider, Issue 63: American elections for tourists, twisters, tortilla masters, Chicago time travel, big red barns, and a visit to our oldest living things.
