I lived through two quirky times in history. When I was in my teens and early twenties, I experienced the groovy era of minishirts, psychedelic posters, and Twiggie. Later in life, I observed the "Occupy Wall Street" movement. All through history, groups of people have broken away from the norm, wondering if things could be …
Tag: Sir Patrick Geddes
Israel-The Seashell Lottery
On April 11, 1906, sixty Jewish families moved north from nearby Jaffa to the sand dunes of the Mediterranean to establish a new community. A lottery was held to pair families with a building plot. Using sixty white shells imprinted with each family's name and sixty grey shells each showing the number of a single …
The Autonomous Traveler 