The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: collapse

  • A Deep Dive Into the Piazza San Marco, Venice

    A Deep Dive Into the Piazza San Marco, Venice

    This is not just a square that you cross to get to other things.

  • The Dixon Bridge Catastrophe

    Americans were a lot more trusting in the Victorian era.

  • Feeling the Earth Move

    When I was 19 years old, I was sitting in my dorm room in North Carolina and the floor shook slightly. I assumed someone was running along the wooden balcony on the other side of the wall. I gave it no further thought until the next day, when I heard on the radio that we…

  • Have we Overstayed our Welcome?

    Aw, jeez, I need to stop surfing the internet. I just came across a website called Recent Natural Disasters, and it gives you all the reported disasters all over the world, 24 hours a day. I have a hard enough time avoiding my tendency to anthropomorphize nature, especially when it seems as though the planet…