Aging on the Run, Racism, Radical Hospitality, United Kingdom
You robbed us of our country and gave it to sheep. Let the sheep defend you. Quote of a Crofter recorded by Donald Ross in The Massacre of the Rosses: An Eyewitness Account of the 1854 Clearance at Greenyard The leaders of the nation made money hand o’er fist by...
Aging on the Run, Europe, long term travel, Nationalism, Racism, Radical Hospitality, Social Movements, Sustainable Economies
“Where you hear singing, stop. Wicked men have no songs.” On June 14, we took a train from Locarno to Lugano, Switzerland. The station in Lugano is high above the city center. Our steep descent took us into the old town filled with upscale shops. At the bottom of the...
Aging on the Run, Europe, long term travel, Public History, Radical Hospitality, Social Movements, Sustainable Economies
What is it about Lago Maggiore—this lake, these mountains, this air, this space between the Germanic and Latin worlds—that attracts rebels? In 1868, Carlo Cafiero, Italian leader of the International Workingmen’s Association and comrade of Friedrich Engels,...
Aging on the Run, Latin America, Nationalism, PTSD and Historical Trauma, Public History, Radical Hospitality, Sustainable Economies, war and peace
We spent seven weeks in Antioquia, Colombia, primarily in Medellín, with shorter visits to Pereira and Retiro. “That is long enough to become a paisano,” one man said, kindly. Of course it is not, but it is long enough to repeat one’s steps...
Aging on the Run, Nationalism, Public History, Racism, Radical Hospitality, Social Movements
Multicultural Sarajevo A melodic chant drowned the raucous sounds of Old Town in Sarajevo. We sat in black wooden chairs facing the chancel in the Serbian Orthodox Museum. A couple crossed themselves in front of holy images. Two women—young, English-speaking,...
