The Big Picture – By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Fourth of July holiday week is over and the soothing cool front is moving out. It’s about to get hot again in the nation’s capital in more ways than one, just in time for President Donald J. Trump to turn the country even…
Photo Essays
Siege at Yorktown Reveals Real Story of American Independence
American Non-Voters Deserve Donald Trump: He’s the Perfect American President for Our Time
Appomattox Court House: Robert E. Lee Surrenders to Grant, Ending Civil War
By Glynn Wilson – APPOMATTOX, Virg. — We didn’t make it here in time for Memorial Day, but National Park Service rangers and volunteers say nearly 500 people showed up for the playing of “Taps” and holiday weekend programs. I don’t know for sure, but considering that Confederate sympathizers seem to generate more engagement these…
Spring Bird Migration on the Gulf Coast in Full Swing
By Glynn Wilson – DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. — The spring bird migration is in full swing along the Gulf Coast, an annual event when thousands of species of birds make their annual trans-Gulf flight from South and Central America back to North America for the summer and hundreds of birders make it here for one…
Bird Watching Takes on a Whole New Meaning for Famous Dauphin Island Gator
By Glynn Wilson – DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. — Thousands of bird watchers are flocking to the Alabama Gulf Coast this spring for the annual bird migration, but it’s also mating season for other species, including this fairly large American alligator [Alligator mississippiensis] that has become a tourist attraction in its own right as people come…
An Osprey Fishing in the Audubon Bird Sanctuary on Dauphin Island
By Glynn Wilson – DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. – The annual spring bird migration is in full swing along the Alabama Gulf Coast, as well as the spring mating season for North American raptors like this osprey [Pandion haliaetus], unique for its diet of live fish and ability to dive into water to catch them. These…
Spring Bird Migration Coming Soon Along the Gulf Coast
By Glynn Wilson – MOBILE, Ala. – As the spring bird migration approaches along the Gulf Coast my mind turns to birds. Soon millions of migratory species will make their way back across the Gulf of Mexico and grace our shores and marshes for a few weeks after their trans-Gulf flight on their way north…
Thinking About An Honest Life by the Singing River in Muscle Shoals
By Glynn Wilson – MUSCLE SHOALS, Ala. — Sitting beside the Tennessee River in McFarland Park by the Florence Visitor’s Center after spending a few days in the quad city area often just called “the shoals,” I cannot help but think about what might have been. What if I had stuck with the music business…
Google Discontinues Panoramio for Maps: Our Photos
Doug Jones Wins Historic Senate Election Over Defiant Judge Roy Moore
By Glynn Wilson – BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Doug Jones and his supporters in Alabama pulled off a historic election victory Dec. 12 that sent reverberations around the political world in a reprimand to President Donald J. Trump, a repudiation of Roy Moore’s style of racist-religious politics, and a major blow to Steve Bannon of Breitbart…
Photo Essay: A White House Tour
By Glynn Wilson – WASHINGTON, D.C. – For the past three years I have chased a dream to visit the White House and stand on the same hallowed ground where so much American history has taken place in the nationâs capital. Finally, thanks to the helpful staff of Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, the Congressman from…
An Update on Thoreau’s Necessities of Life
âThe necessaries of life for man in this climate may, accurately enough, be distributed under the several heads of Food, Shelter, Clothing, and Fuel; for not till we have secured these are we prepared to entertain the true problems of life with freedom and a prospect of success.â – Henry David Thoreau, Walden By Glynn…
Takoma Park Maryland Celebrates Independence Day with Parade, Fireworks Show
By Glynn Wilson – TAKOMA PARK, M.D. — Just north of Washington, D.C., in one of the richest and most liberal neighborhoods in the country, there is no love for President Donald J. Trump. But they do love their country, so they turned out in force on Tuesday, July 4, 2017, to celebrate Independence Day…
Setting the Record Straight on the Lewis and Clark Expedition
The Western pioneer and cowboy myth is huge, but not so much from the Native American perspective. By Glynn Wilson – Editor-in-Chief – EDITOR’S NOTE: There are two kinds of people in the world. Which kind are you? Do you like reading the pretty little patriotic myth? Or would you rather see a real journalist…
A Look at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West Museum in Cody Wyoming
Watch the video – By Glynn Wilson – “Buffalo Bill” Cody is a name that conjures up romantic images of the American “Wild West” in the 19th century. It’s almost unfortunate in the 21st century when there is a renewed interest in justice for Native Americans that the name of William Frederick “Buffalo Bill” Cody…
Birds of the American West
Expedition of Rediscovery Western Journey Timeline
By Glynn Wilson and Walter Simon – On a mission to investigate whatâs going on with the pipeline protest in Cannonball, North Dakota and the privatization of the national parks out west, we departed from Mobile, Alabama on Friday, Sept. 23, and drove for about 8 hours to Jonesboro, Arkansas, where we hooked up with…
A Modern Exodus: Movements of the People
Experiencing Wild Yellowstone Would Make the World a Better Place
Secret Vistas – By Glynn Wilson – YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wy. – Standing still in a mountain meadow as snowflakes begin to fall on a herd of bison along Beartooth Pass, you get the feeling of arriving in an ancient and distant land before human civilization began to eat away at nature and churn the…