Late summer 2021 reflections on Marywood

Variations on glazing, mostly reflecting landscaping, at Marywood University.

Forest floor

Look down in the forest and everyone is having a meal at someone else’s expense!

Williamson Building

Come for the Gothic revival architecture but stay for the Neoclassical portrait busts on the façade!

Two splendid Italian monuments

Some purple (Italian) prose on these two monuments!

Our culm

In which the author becomes pro-tem a coal picker.

Olde School Antifascism

A Woodlawn monument to Antonio Fierro offers an opportunity to dig into fascist-communist fighting among Italian Americans in the early 1930s.

Mind the gap

The Susquehanna is a tremendously interesting river: the photograph here obliquely suggests the reason why.

St. Lucy’s Church

Bombings, antifascists, coal-mine collapses, and THE SCRANTONIAN SCULPTOR. Need ye more?

NEPA to the end

Come to see one of the world’s largest concrete structures, but stay to see how you can avoid the anxiety of eventual and permanent separation from it.

Susquehanna sojourn

Astounding cumulonimbus clouds rose above the Susquehanna River during an afternoon drive yesterday.

Lord Anthrax

I did not bring coals to Newcastle, but I did bring coal to Scranton today, which is just as bad!

John Mitchell Monument, Scranton

Scranton may be proud of the Mitchell monument; but hardly anyone sees its outstanding side, facing the courthouse.

Centralia, Pennsylvania

A super-intriguing abandoned town in East-Central Pennsylvania.