Building the Shark River Station – Chapter 1
Some well meaning folks, when I was still on Facebook, said my posts were too long, people wouldn’t read them. Well, I write them as much if not more for myself than my “audience”. And the origination of the ones I am finally sharing here was that they were kind of intended as a book. […]
Miami Herald Womens’ Section for Earth Day Featuring A Naked Philip Spitzer
From the post about oil drilling in the Everglades you know I was friends with reporters at our local newspaper. Margaria Fichtner was the section editor and came up with a fun idea for the Sunday paper. I WAS wearing a bathing suit, but that’s not disclosed in the article! The next week one of the students […]
Patrick Geddes
I was a scholar. Some of my work did contribute to what we knew. But due to my academic career being cut short (as much my responsibility as others), much never saw the light of day. So I will be offering some of that work here. This was a 20-page holographic manuscript, and I thought […]
Gary Snyder and the Four Changes
Gary Snyder was an important Beat poet. He drafted and distributed this manifesto during the budding environmental movement of the late sixties. I have had it in my files since then. I have not seen it anywhere else since. I looked online to find it and could only find reference and availability of his expansion […]
The New England Summer and Carl Sagan
I hitched north in July 1973, to get my place to live for graduate school which I was starting in the fall. My first stop was to stay with my friend the park ranger in the Smokies (she was one of my nightly visitors to the mission dig sites, tune in for that story!). Then […]
The Trio Diner and Another Close Call
The Trio episode involved a military type. The diner was stainless steel on the outside looking like an airstream trailer, just like all diners used to look. It was at the Douglas Road entrance, 37th Avenue, to Coral Gables, a mediterranean Moorish style gateway, at Eighth Street. It was not yet called Calle Ocho. The […]
Sex, Drugs and Politics: My Life In The Sixties
My working title for this book when I started writing it 20 years ago was Sex, Drugs and Politics: My Life In The Sixties Part of that was scoring, “drugs”. We did not consider marijuana a drug, but yeah, some of what we took were right out of the Sandoz pharmaceutical lab in Switzerland. My […]
Leonard Cohen and Climate Change
I have an overactive mind. One thought races into another in a manic stream of consciousness worthy of James Joyce’s Ulysses. Sunday morning, I am finally watching a DVD of Leonard Cohen’s London concert. Where do I begin about him? A few summers ago, ’18? ’17?, the Jewish Museum in NYC had the most mind-blowing […]
The Englishman and The Close Call
Grandpa Sam Goldstein, Mom’s Father, was born in England on the way here. His family was from Rumania. I have his birth certificate. It is an official copy issued many years after he was born. He probably got it for the new social security system in the 1930’s. I know that’s when it was produced […]
How I Stopped Oil Drilling in the Everglades
From 1967 to 1969 I was part of the Hydrobiology Research Team of the Water Resources Division of the United States Geological Survey of the United States Department of the Interior (Thank you John Wesley Powell!). Our mission was nothing less than coordinating and adding to the knowledge and understanding of the complete ecology of Everglades National Park. For two years of my very young life I got to live a real wilderness adventure.