Boom and Bust Towns
In many areas, one of the big tourism items is the exploration of ghost towns. The official web site for tourism in Nevada proudly touts the state as being number one in the country for ghost towns – and with over six hundred, they more than outnumber the now existing...
Wanna Get Away?
If the last year and a half of isolation hasn’t been enough for you (or you have realized that you really don’t need as many friends as you thought you did), you might be looking for somewhere remote to go. So, where is the most remote places that you can live? Or go...
Using 2020 Census Data
Over the past year or so, we have been giving a heads up that the 2020 census data was to be affected by new and more stringent non-disclosure rules intended to protect the identify of census respondents. We recognize that such protection is important while muttering...
Echoes of Settlement Strategies
Watching the Hurricane Ida coverage a few weeks ago had us thinking about odd geography in the United States. What is a Parish? Why can’t they just say county? Much of our geography today was shaped by those who settled there. Earliest settlements were by three...
Industrial Diversity and Sustainable Growth
What is a place known for? Think Detroit and you likely think cars. Washington, D.C.? Government. Los Angeles, movies and television, nicely incorporated in a single term – Hollywood. Orlando? Disney World. Our comparison of Nashville and Memphis started with jazz,...
Memphis Blues and Nashville Country
Geography and music, two things that most people don’t associate with the other. Listening to a song on the radio does not, in most normal people, lead to a consideration of the peculiar geography of many of the music styles which emerged over the past century. And...
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