Continuing on the value of ethnography, today I spent some time going through the 3-volume Conquests of the Cross, a history of Christian mission up to nearly the close of the nineteenth century. The volumes are filled with extracts from missionary letters, diaries and reports and also have hundreds of detailed line drawings. While the [...]

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We are nearing the end of two projects – Global Perspectives Issues and Ideas and Mission and Missionaries and one of the final tasks is to select extracts of primary text to use a sidebars which add a real-life dimension to the often scholarly articles. My role in this is to dig into ethnography to [...]

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With a special town meeting, the annual town meeting, and the local election all coming up in the next 10 weeks, politics are heating up here in Great Barrington. Local politics always makes think od what Du Bois wrote about learning about democracy by observing the annual town meeting then held on the second floor [...]

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I was pleased yesterday to receive the first review of African American Heritage in the Upper Housatonic Valley, a region-wide effort which I edited and we published last fall as part of the Upper Housatonic Valley African American Trail initiative. By the way, the initiative goes on with an online trail guide in the works [...]

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