# grand forks (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover grand forks. Page: Feed: --- ## [Three Things Thursday: Running toward the Fire](https://mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2026/08/20/three-things-thursday-running-toward-the-fire/) _2026-08-20 · Bill Caraher · Archaeology of the Mediterranean World_ I’m pretty excited about the start of the semester. This semester is going to be crazy busy. Not only am I teaching five classes for the first five weeks of the semester, but I have a ton of little (and not so little) projects coming at me from conference papers (and travel), to Digital Press… Read More → ## [Writing Wednesday: NDQ](https://mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2026/08/19/writing-wednesday-ndq/) _2026-08-19 · Bill Caraher · Archaeology of the Mediterranean World_ Over the last week or so, I’ve been slogging through some revisions on my article about the the first 23 volumes of NDQ. While this has involved lots of spinning wheels, some crunching of data, and some new prose (especially after I learned that my article could be 7500 words rather than just 4000). The… Read More → ## [Two Things Tuesday: More Anarchism](https://mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2026/08/18/two-things-tuesday-more-anarchism/) _2026-08-18 · Bill Caraher · Archaeology of the Mediterranean World_ From where I sit, there’s been a notable uptick in scholarship that appeals to anarchism and anarchist praxis in archaeology over the last decade. Some of this should be attributed to David Graeber and David Wengrow’s Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021) which for whatever its limitation has inspired scholars to consider… Read More → ## [Music Monday: Tina Brooks](https://mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2026/08/17/music-monday-tina-brooks/) _2026-08-17 · Bill Caraher · Archaeology of the Mediterranean World_ For whatever reason, I’ve been in a hard bop mood lately. Last week, while driving, I very much enjoyed Johnny Coles’s trumpet. This week, I’ve been enjoying some Tina Brooks, a relatively obscure and tragic sax player. In general, Brooks’s outputs as leader are of high quality which makes it curious that only one of… Read More → ## [Heber Cole and the Hume Hotel](https://www.kutnereader.com/post/heber-cole-and-the-hume-hotel) _2026-08-15 · Greg Nesteroff · Kutne Reader_ One hundred years ago today, a man sent a letter to his wife on Hume Hotel stationery. Who was he and what became of him? ## [Photo Friday: More Adventures with Film](https://mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2026/08/14/photo-friday-more-adventures-with-film/) _2026-08-14 · Bill Caraher · Archaeology of the Mediterranean World_ I keep practicing film photography and enjoy taking photos more than any kind of success, but here is my latest batch of developed films. These are mostly from my Nikon N90s some with a Takumar 55 mm f/1.8 lens. This photo is… bad art, but whatever. I then shot a bunch on expired Kodak UltraMax Read More ## [Three Things Thursday: Photography, Work, and University Life](https://mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2026/08/13/three-things-thursday-photography-work-and-university-life/) _2026-08-13 · Bill Caraher · Archaeology of the Mediterranean World_ After a brutal week of travel, I’m feeling quite behind in everything: reading, writing, deadlines, the start of the semester, and recharging my batteries before a hectic fall. The late summer bustle, set against a fatigue-tinted doldrums, feels like as good a time as any for a three things Thursday. Thing the First I’ve just Read More ## [Writing Wednesday: The Suburban Pool](https://mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2026/08/12/writing-wednesday-the-suburban-pool/) _2026-08-12 · Bill Caraher · Archaeology of the Mediterranean World_ This past week, I visited my home town of Wilmington, Delaware. No summer visit is complete without a trip to the various suburban swimming pools where I played, swam, and worked each summer. As my brother and I visited various swim clubs (with my nephews in tow!), I was struck by how little they have Read More ## [Traffic lights come to Nelson](https://www.kutnereader.com/post/traffic-lights-come-to-nelson) _2026-08-11 · Greg Nesteroff · Kutne Reader_ When did traffic lights appear in West Kootenay? That is, of the red-amber-green variety. We can pinpoint the exact date. ## [Traveling Tuesday: The Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota](https://mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2026/08/11/traveling-tuesday-the-ringling-museum-of-art-in-sarasota/) _2026-08-11 · Bill Caraher · Archaeology of the Mediterranean World_ On my drive from Wilmington, Delaware to Ft. Myers, Florida, I took a quick break at the Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida to check out their newly reinstalled Cyprus gallery which was the work of our sometime collaborator from Polis, Joanna Smith.I had never been to this museum and honestly wasn’t prepared for Read More ## [Auto-trade Cross-Exchange Gaps (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/oGjK8l32xOWQ) _2026-08-11 · **Sponsored**_ Find cross-exchange spreads, backtest strategies, and execute automatically with risk controls. ## [Music Monday: Johnny Coles](https://mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2026/08/10/music-monday-johnny-coles/) _2026-08-10 · Bill Caraher · Archaeology of the Mediterranean World_ It’s Monday, right? I drove from Wilmington, Delaware to Jacksonville, Florida yesterday which was overall pretty pleasant (except South Carolina). I was able to get in some quality listening on my drive and enjoy 12 innings of borderline comical Phillies baseball. This is not a baseball or travel blog (you’re lucky South Carolina!), but it Read More ## [Photo Friday: A Half-Frame and an Alley](https://mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2026/08/07/14490/) _2026-08-07 · Bill Caraher · Archaeology of the Mediterranean World_ A few weeks ago, I walked down my alley with my half-frame Olympus PEN EE-2 camera and a roll of expired Kodak UltraMax 400 shot at ISO 100 (which accounts for a bit of the color cast). I am pretty pleased with the photos and while most of them are not “good” but any technical Read More ## [Three Things Thursday: Mixing up My Days](https://mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2026/08/06/three-things-thursday-mixing-up-my-days/) _2026-08-06 · Bill Caraher · Archaeology of the Mediterranean World_ I’m in an Air BnB in Wilmington, Delaware right now and somewhere between airport layovers, North Carolina micro-breweries, high school golf tournaments, and road trips through the Piedmont of NC and Virginia, I lost track of what day of the week it was. For some reason, it has really bothered me that I got my Read More ## [Wreading Wednesday: AI and I](https://mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2026/08/04/wreading-wednesday-ai-and-i/) _2026-08-04 · Bill Caraher · Archaeology of the Mediterranean World_ I’ve been reading more about AI lately trying to get my feet set in the rapidly developing conversation. On my flight to the east coast I read Emily Bender’s and Alex Hanna’s The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech s Hype and Create the Future We Want (2025) which occasionally gets cited as a good Read More ## [Taking my Time Tuesday](https://mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2026/08/03/taking-my-time-tuesday/) _2026-08-03 · Bill Caraher · Archaeology of the Mediterranean World_ I’m taking a day off and walked around downtown Greensboro a bit while visiting my brother. It’s the kind of cloudy day that brings out something in the mid-century architecture that graces the city’s downtown. The former Federal Home Loan Bank of Greensboro (aka “the mushroom building”; ca. 1968) by Praise Connor Lee: The Elon Read More ## [Music Monday: Trane, Brackeen, and Collier](https://mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2026/08/03/music-monday-trane-brackeen-and-collier/) _2026-08-03 · Bill Caraher · Archaeology of the Mediterranean World_ This week had some desultory work on various projects, a bit of reading, and some travel. I’m working to adjust my expectations in terms of what I can and need to get done before the start of the fall semester. My classes are mostly set up even if I’ve not quite figured out all the Read More ## [The Kootenay artwork of Edward Lange](https://www.kutnereader.com/post/the-kootenay-artwork-of-edward-lange) _2026-07-31 · Greg Nesteroff · Kutne Reader_ A prolific artist whose work is well known on New York’s Long Island also created landscapes of West Kootenay mining towns in the mid-1890s. ## [The Creston Valley Co-op and the Grand Theatre](https://www.kutnereader.com/post/the-creston-valley-co-op-and-the-grand-theatre) _2026-07-29 · Greg Nesteroff · Kutne Reader_ This postcard view of Creston, taken between 1942 and 1947, appeals to me immensely for several reasons. ## [Kootenay time zone oddities](https://www.kutnereader.com/post/kootenay-time-zone-oddities) _2026-07-07 · Greg Nesteroff · Kutne Reader_ Kingsgate and Eastport residents used to celebrate New Year’s twice. The Kootenay Lake ferry is a time machine. And what time is it between Riondel and Birchdale? ## [Searching for Nakusp](https://www.kutnereader.com/post/searching-for-nakusp) _2026-06-28 · Kyle Kusch · Kutne Reader_ A roundabout journey from the West Kootenay to the Channel Islands to outer space. A guest post. ## [AI News Summaries & Audio (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/3YpnJ4TRoYr9) _2026-06-28 · **Sponsored**_ Tap an article for an AI summary and an audio briefing. ## [West Kootenay-Boundary births of 1904](https://www.kutnereader.com/post/west-kootenay-boundary-births-of-1904) _2026-05-19 · Greg Nesteroff · Kutne Reader_ After a wait of more than 21 years, we finally get to learn how many babies were born in BC in 1904. ## [Roxanne, the draft screenplay](https://www.kutnereader.com/post/roxanne-the-draft-screenplay) _2026-05-15 · Greg Nesteroff · Kutne Reader_ A draft script of the Steve Martin movie filmed in Nelson in 1986 that I found on eBay is much different than the finished product. ## [The swinging sounds of The Serenaders](https://www.kutnereader.com/post/the-swinging-sounds-of-the-serenaders) _2026-04-14 · Greg Nesteroff · Kutne Reader_ It’s one thing to be told that a band was really good. It’s another to hear it for yourself. And in the case of Trail’s Serenaders, now you can! ## [​​Big, lost Nelson buildings: The Strathcona Annex](https://www.kutnereader.com/post/big-lost-nelson-buildings-the-strathcona-annex) _2026-04-06 · Greg Nesteroff · Kutne Reader_ For all of Nelson’s many surviving heritage buildings as well as lost heritage buildings that at least we have lots of photos of, many others existed for which few if any photos survive.