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Locations in “Puck’s Song”

This weekend, my housemate Ruthanna Emrys is in Brighton, Sussex at the World Fantasy Convention for the release of her new novella, The Sheltering Flame. Thinking about fantasy literature and Sussex reminded me of a poem her wife is very fond of, “Puck’s Song,” from Rudyard Kipling’s 1906 children’s fantasy novel Puck of Pook’s Hill, in which the fairy Puck takes two Sussex children on adventures through fictionalized and magical events in English history. “Puck’s Read more

By DWR, ago

Why don’t we call them iron roads?

My intention for this blog is to use it to post small GIS and geography projects that aren’t large enough to try to find more-formal venues for. However, it will probably also end up having some things that aren’t specifically GIS or geography related but that I think are likely also of interest to my readers. Today, want to write up the results of an online research rabbit hole I went down this afternoon: trying Read more

By DWR, ago

The Distribution of Same-Sex Couples in the United States

A lesbian couple I know in Hyattsville, Maryland have on several occasions told me that—according to a source they don’t remember—Hyattsville has the largest fraction of lesbian households of any city in the country. This claim makes me wonder what the actual distribution of LGBT people in the US is. While a few large cities (San Francisco, New York, Washington DC) and resort communities (Provincetown, MA; Fire Island, NY; Rehoboth Beach, DE) have reputations as Read more

By DWR, ago