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Creating a Space for Living: Taking Bearings (The Library) by Adam M. Sowards - Issue #12
A 1944 novel imagines social transformation through dams
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The Untrammeled Beach: Taking Bearings (The Field Trip) by Adam M. Sowards - Issue #11
Some anecdotes about origins.
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Planning the Columbia Basin: Taking Bearings (The Classroom) by Adam M. Sowards - Issue #10
Some notes on a planning experiment for the Columbia Basin.
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Mapping Home, Tracing Change--Taking Bearings (The Wild Card) by Adam M. Sowards - Issue #9
What archival maps show about where I grew up.
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Diving Deep with Rachel Carson: Taking Bearings (The Library) by Adam M. Sowards - Issue #8
Revisiting Rachel Carson's classic--no, not Silent Spring!
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Glimpsing Equality--Taking Bearings (The Field Trip) by Adam M. Sowards - Issue #7
Tracing an old experiment in a local landscape.
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