The settling of Virginia, Chesapeake and Tidewater area of North America

America's early colonization brought drastically different initial opinions and interactions between the settlers and the native...

This program (14 mins.) focuses on New York State's colonial background, especially the Finger Lakes and Adirondacks

Pioneer Trail, Prologue, March 25, 2020 (tap image) This is the first of along series of short video-blogs (with lots of photos and...

#Americana #AmericanHistory #GreatPlains #USA #history #NorthAmericanhistory #travel #fineartphotography #photography

This is the last blog of a series of 16 blogs and YouTube videos, introducing Joshua Slocum, first person to solo sail around the world...

Youtube video (Blog 14) 5 min. Jeb Elison did not tarry long in Fredericton. Curiosity drove him first downriver to the large New...

Video Presentation (tap to YouTube, 8 min). (to be continued) #NewBrunswick #farming #Travel #BayofFundy #Journey #fall #Autumn #photography

to be continued...... tap for video (4 min.) #NovaScotia #JoshuaSlocum #travel #fineartphotography #photography #history #sea #sailing...

Again, I offer a half-hearted disclaimer. The following is not an entirely fictional or non-fictional account. Jeb (my alter ego) and...

https://youtu.be/eN8jc-5Wy8I Menno’s Folks. The Mennonites are a pie of Christian Anabaptist denominations named after a Frisian priest —...

While an older gentleman (sans gentle) now, I think myself young and ageless. However, I am reminded on every side that I am “mature,”...

----------- Video (5 min.) Tap and Nap _______________ In the parlance of our world’s scientists, we now accept generally that materials...

Video (6 min.) click and stick ...[I am still working to improve on these presentations to make them more pleasing to hear as well...

ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uTRd5f9Q2g&t=80s My path courses along the edges of the battle(s), like that of a war correspondent. I...

I hope to present my blogs in a more personal way going forward, so as to make it a little more interactive and entertaining. Links will...

I expected the Mekong River jungle to be relatively silent. But it is not. In a humid, green undergrowth, I stride to the sound of...

"Ceaselessly the river flows, and yet the water is never the same, while in the still pools the shifting foam gathers and is gone, never...

It is finally time to leave Hanoi, the city, for a gambit in the countryside. But it takes time, as the metropolis is far-flung, hanging...

Vietnam today is, of course, a different place than in the previous century. Changes have been significant in government,...