Month April 2021

Tiwai Island in Sierra Leone

Starting from the from the highlands of Guinea, the Moa River flows southwest toward the Atlantic Ocean. Along its path, the wide river hosts a cluster of islands. One of those is Tiwai Island, a 12-square kilometer piece of land…

The Banishing film review

★★★ Directed by: Christopher Smith Written by: David Beton, Dean Lines, Ray Bogdanovich Starring: Jessica Brown Findlay, John Heffernan, Anya McKenna-Bruce, Sean Harris, John Lynch, Shudder Film Review by: Chris Olson The Banishing review A 1930s haunted house tale from…

MONDAY: It’s Got That Monday Feeling

I have yet to meet someone who loves a Monday. The start of the work week, the signifier of the end of the weekend, Mondays are literally the worst. While Monday, from director and writer Argyris Papadimitropoulos, is not the…

Stanhope Fossil Tree in Stanhope, England

In St. Thomas’s churchyard, Stanhope, stands an unusual piece of history. What appears to be an old, dead tree trunk standing in front of a missing section of church wall just along from the war memorial is actually a large fossil.…

Challenger Memorial Park in Montpelier, Vermont

Going along Memorial Drive into Montpelier, the capital of Vermont, it may easy to overlook a small black-and-grey stone sitting next to an intersection. But a closer look yields something unexpected: an image of the space shuttle Challenger, located in a…

Garðar Cathedral Ruins in Igaliku, Greenland

In the early 12th-century, Norse settlers of Greenland established the first bishop seat on the island in the southern village of Garðar. There, a cathedral dedicated to Saint Nicholas, patron saint of sailors, was founded by Greenland’s first bishop Arnaldur in…