In depth recounting of my global wandering
Memory, history and healing. Construction of the camp at Heart Mountain, the fourth largest relocation center in the U S, began on 15 June 1942. (Heart Mountain can’t technically be called an “internment camp” because internment refers to a lawful …
Heart Mountain heartless. On Monday, 8 December 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt went before a joint session of Congress to seek a declaration of war. In his address, he called 7 December 1941, the day of the Japanese attack on …
I arrived in Jackson late in the afternoon of 2 September and, as you saw in the photos I posted previously, while my first views of the Tetons were impressive, they were breathtaking mainly because the ash laden air complicated …
Whose fault is it? Since the Tetons are an upfaulted mountain block, I thought it might be worth taking a look at the anatomy of faults. Simply speaking, a fault is a zone in the earth’s crust where the rocks on …
My report on the Tetons will be among the shortest posts of this trip. As shown on the map below, the remainder of the drive from Fort Washakie to Jackson follows a straightforward route – essentially Route 287 to left …