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Making History; Creating a Landscape: The Portuguese American Community of Southeastern New England

Making History; Creating a Landscape: The Portuguese American Community of Southeastern New England

A masterful portrait of the landscape and history of Portuguese Americans the places they call home.

2018

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The One Minute Geographer: Massachusetts (10): Worcester and Springfield

Continuing our posts on Massachusetts, there’s more to Massachusetts than Boston! We’ll look at Worcester and Springfield, the second and…

Aug 24, 2022

The One Minute Geographer: Massachusetts (10): Worcester and Springfield

Aug 24, 2022

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The One Minute Geographer: This Fragile Earth (11) Water, Water Everywhere and Only a Drop to Drink

Speaking of the hydrosphere (previous post), Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote a famous poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. It contains the…

Feb 25, 2022

The One Minute Geographer: This Fragile Earth (11) Water, Water Everywhere and Only a Drop to Drink

Feb 25, 2022

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Signs, Symbols and Stones: The Portuguese American Urban Ethnic Landscape #4

Are your feet sore yet? We’re continuing our expedition through an urban ethnic landscape, learning about a different culture, that of…

May 24, 2021

Signs, Symbols and Stones: The Portuguese American Urban Ethnic Landscape #4

May 24, 2021

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The One Minute Geographer: The Great Lakes Portage Site Line

The Great Lakes portage line is a bit different from the portage line we looked at along the Fall Line and across the southern US in the…

Jan 22

The One Minute Geographer: The Great Lakes Portage Site Line

Jan 22

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The One Minute Geographer: Touring the Erie Canal Corridor

If you don’t live in New York State, you may not be familiar with all the vacation and tourist opportunities that the Erie Canal Corridor…

Aug 14, 2022

The One Minute Geographer: Touring the Erie Canal Corridor

Aug 14, 2022

Jim Fonseca

Flipping the Texas Electoral Vote

On the map above, each of the three shades of blue shows states that are home to about one-third of the US population. The four states with…

Oct 25

A ma of US States of various shadings showing that each of the three shadings house about one-third of the US population. The four states with the dark blue shading have more than half (56%) of the 270 electoral votes a presidential candidate needs to win. Map by the author.

Oct 25

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Portuguese Village: A Proposal for Fall River, Massachusetts

A lot of good things are happening in Fall River. After several decades of population decline, the city’s population rose from about 89,000…

Sep 27

The ships of Battleship Cove lie under the the Braga Bridge carrying I-195 across the Taunton River in Fall River. The round building to the left is the Carousel. The building in the foreground is the Fall River Heritage State Park Building housing exhibits. To the right is the start of the riverfront trail extending 1.7 miles to Bicentennial Park. Photo from cityoffallriver on facebook.com.

Sep 27

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The One-Minute Geographer: The Andes

Continuing our series on Latin America, we’ll start this overview of Latin America’s mountains by asking how they compare to other…

Sep 4

Mt. Alpamayo, Peru (19,511 ft, 5,947 m). Photo by Frank R 1981, on Wikipedia.

Sep 4

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Pablo Escobar’s Terror in Colombia

A Review of The Sound of Things Falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Aug 30

Pablo Escobar’s Terror in Colombia

Aug 30

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The One-Minute Geographer: Territorial Giants and Microstates in Latin America

The Size of Latin American Nations

Aug 21

Map of Brazil overlaid on the United States. Map from The World Factbook posted at openrivers.lib.umn.edu

Aug 21

Jim Fonseca

Jim Fonseca

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Geography professor (retired) writes The One Minute Geographer featuring This Fragile Earth. Top writer in Transportation and, in past months, Travel.

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