Julian Smith
@juliansmith
Author of ALOHA RODEO, SMOKEJUMPER and CROSSING THE HEART OF AFRICA for HarperCollins. Writer of all the things: Esquire, Smithsonian, Wired, Nat Geo. Musician, dad, galeophobe
Your anecdote about the communities destroyed to build the NYC reservoirs jumped out at me--I grew up in Katonah, which was moved to make room for the Croton reservoir at the turn of the century. As in, houses were dragged by horses to a new location, some with people still living in them.
Plowing through the (excellent) Parker crime novel series and this is from Flashfire (2000)
*arguing over the meaning of Jumping Someone Else’s Train* but sir I’ll have you know I’m an expert in