Gunkanjima
The island was abandoned in 1974. Now no one is permitted there.
What? You want more adventure? Searching just now for info about Varsosha—a city perhaps even more abandoned and forbidden than Gunkanjima—I came across Michael Totten’s website, a blog of pretty fascinating explorations. [Warning: will make you long for travel money!]
Oh, and for FamousP: some adventures closer to home.
February 25th, 2006 at 11:49 am
Please keep posting links like this. The UER is one I’ve never come across before and is particularly fascinating to me. I’ve seen the Varsosha stuff before. The whole Cyprus story really makes for some very interesting material on borders, besides being a heartbreaking nightmare relic of the cold war. There are lots of lost caves in St. Louis as well, I’ve discovered. Most of them aren’t really lost or even natural caves for that matter. They are rather relics of St. Louis’ place in the history of American brewing; a lot of the caves were dug for use by breweries as cold storage for beer. This is part of the knowledge that taking up home brewing will impart. But the article tells you this much as well so I can only boringly repeat what is already obvious. SIGH!
Speaking of borders, how were the talks by the dept’s hire/spousal hire for the American position? Or did you not even go?
Also, in reference to the wiretapping scandal, check out this story: TIA Lives On.
February 25th, 2006 at 8:35 pm
You should maybe also be aware of this site Slashdoc as you very well might start seeing student papers from it.
February 26th, 2006 at 9:42 pm
Yeah, you should check out some of the threads in the UER forums. I just wasted a couple mintues trying to find some of the better ones I read a few days ago. But you’ll have to hunt about yourself, I’m afraid.
Did I go to the Americanist talks? Surely you jest! I barely make it to the Early Modern ones!
Well ok, I do occasionally show up for notably cool later stuff, but I did miss these, sadly. I didn’t even think about going, to tell the truth. Sorry.