by admin | Oct 19, 2021 | Lightning Update
At Beach Week 2021, Beach #20, Gloucester Point Beach Park on the York River, Gloucester Point, Virginia, I met Louis, another avid fisherman. It was his first time at the park. This landscape, once known as Tsenacomoco, was home to some of the tribes in the...
by admin | May 25, 2021 | Lightning Update
One philanthropist built thousands of schools for African-Americans in the era of Jim Crow. (Photos: EHT Traceries) As our nation struggles to address a record of racial conflicts and challenges, we may gain encouragement by reflecting on positive stories of the past....
by admin | May 4, 2021 | Lightning Update
Written by Jonathan L. Doherty After writing weekly Lightning Updates for almost three years, I’m about to enter a new post-full-time-job phase of life. Perhaps you will pardon my using this and next week’s updates for some personal observations. Here’s part I. I’ve...
by admin | Apr 22, 2021 | Lightning Update
On Earth Day 2021, we offer these words from the poet Julie Cadwallader-Staub. Praying In the garden early, I’mtransplanting echinacea while robins and flycatchers confirm that our winter–complicated and compoundedby COVID–has succumbed to spring at...
by admin | Feb 17, 2021 | Lightning Update
How many birds are killed by vehicles along a single stretch of rural highway? (Photos: above — Janet Griffin/Shutterstock; below — Jay Falstad) From time to time, these updates share information that may not be the best of news, but does shed light on the...
by admin | Jan 20, 2021 | Lightning Update
News and images of this week’s closures of the National Mall and its memorials, the U.S. Capitol, and public streets in Washington are arresting. And yet, there have been so many dramatic images from public open space in the past year. Park closures from the...
