Wow!  Thanks to all of you for such a great response to my invitation!  Within the first 18 hours, over 140 Mary Washington Geographers joined the site.  I’m sure we’ll hear from more of you in the coming days. 

I also have the names of over 300 more alumni without current e-mail addresses.  I’ll be sending them an old fashioned letter, but if you know of people you can use the "invite your friends and colleagues" tools to get them … Read the rest

" . . . . until you take the wheels off (The TrailerPark Troubadours)

Almost a decade ago, I was driving through the mountains of Eastern Kentucky when this tune came over the radio. The Troubadours painted a comic but sympathetic picture of this iconic American Landscape.

So why does it come to mind now? In Spring 2009, the Geography Department will find itself in a set of trailers modular units while Monroe Hall is being renovated. Our home … Read the rest

February 18, 2008

Change is the word of the presidential election so far. Everybody is a candidate-for-change. Change the economy. Change Iraq. Change ‘broken Washington.’ Of course, every election features candidates-for-change. It’s just harder to figure out what it means when nobody runs on the status quo.

For the Geography Department at Mary Washington – and for the institution as a whole – change seems omnipresent as well. Bricks are now partially covering the grid of steel beams marks the … Read the rest