I've been doing some genealogical research lately that involves
reading and photographing tombstones in various places, and I can
assure you that geography is still all too painfully alive.
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Steve Franklin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher M. Everett" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2001 09:13 AM
Subject: Re: [MAPPING-CYBERSPACE] MAPPING-CYBERSPACE Digest - 31 Aug
2001 to 1 Sep 2001 (#2001-35)
| In a message dated 9/1/2001 6:19:42 PM Central Daylight Time,
| [log in to unmask] writes:
|
|
| "....so even geography is (for some purposes, and in some ways) not
yet
| dead, it is surely (for some purposes, and in some ways) has a lot
less
| relevance for our lives."
|
| I read a quote like this and I actually start felling bad for the
perosn who
| wrote it. I see direct and indirect connections to geography almost
daily.
| Geogrpahy also seems, to me, to be one of the "base" sciences that
so many
| other subjects get at least some of their basis from. I even have
coworkers
| who have no education past high school and they can see how
"geography is all
| around us."
|
| C. Everett
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|