FIRST there was Cara Dillon's There Were Roses, then The Testimony of Patience Kershaw by The Unthanks, followed by Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh's I See his Blood upon the Rose.
Column: A well-founded pessimism about our future
Will Lange. Copyright (c) Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
Modified: 5/19/2021 9:35:47 AM
Years ago I had a fishing buddy who was also a history professor. We usually cast our flies from opposite ends of a large aluminum scow; and when fishing was slow, we just trolled around the pond and talked. I learned more during those sessions about the details of building the Panama Canal than I ever gleaned from David McCullough’s excellent book
The Path Between the Seas, and more about the United States’ bullying of Peru over about $40 million worth of bird guano, than the average citizen needs to know.