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After the Surge: A Day on the North Anna River
On May 26, 2020
The river was still falling at midnight, yet I went to bed confident that the North Anna River would be on the rise by
The Saddest Affair: A Geologic Perspective on the Battle of the Crater, U.S. Civil War
On July 29, 2014
One hundred and fifty years ago this week a terrible and pernicious battle was fought at Petersburg, Virginia during the American Civil War. In
Searching for Hylas
On February 22, 2012
We are deep into the spring semester and my teaching/administrative duties are gobbling up most of my weekdays and nights. There is hardly a