Anne Macpherson
@drmac67
Newfoundland. Great Lakes. Belize. Puerto Rico. Historian of the Caribbean. Books at and Tree-planting search engine with non AI option:
From Forbes but here's the key bit. Parents: your kid can major in a humanities or social science and have career success in *many* fields
Happy Juneteenth! Underground Railroad to Mexico (through Texas) fascinating. Mexico abolished slavery in 1829 precisely to discourage Anglo settlement in Tejas. It was less about human rights than geopolitics.
Growing up in St. John's in the 70s and 80s there was a stream of adventurers trying to set transatlantic records by various means. I remember hot air balloonists taking most of a summer day to inflate then disappearing into low clouds almost immediately.
Bad Bunny had a chat with Pope Leo in Madrid. Surely both in awesome outfits
Native bluestar in full bloom with native false indigo not far behind. Sixth spring since Covid native garden project began.