Monthly Archives: May 2022

Prologue. Before I start in earnest, let me brush aside the controversial hypothesis that the first humans arrived in California some 130,000 years ago. In 2017 a group of researchers looking at the remains of a mastodon and other material …

Between the posts about my trips to the American and Canadian west, Montreal, and Atlanta, I think there are enough entries throughout this blog that have described the paleogeology and geological forces that shaped the North American continent to obviate …

Fifty two years after hosting the Olympic Games in 1932, Los Angeles became the first American city to twice be the host for the Summer Olympics. Four years earlier Lake Placid, NY became the first American city to host a …

Los Angeles has twice played host to the Olympic Games. The city first hosted the Games of the X Olympiad in 1932 and, more recently, the Games of the XXIII Olympiad in 1984. The event is scheduled to return to …

As I’ve noted elsewhere in this series, it’s possible that my chronology is wrong and I first visited Los Angeles before my first trip to Saint Louis. In truth, one could technically say that the first time I was in …