A couple months ago when I was looking into the origins of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels Limited, I came across one of their holdings I hadn't heard of before--the Peak Hotel.How had I missed this one?Examining this postcard, I can't see where one building ends and … [Read more...]
Remembering nine years later
As the world remembers the 9/11 tragedy today, I think back to those two hours on that Tuesday morning nine years ago when I couldn't find my brother.He worked in the building in the middle of this photo, the one standing behind the shorter building with a similar pointed … [Read more...]
End of the Cultural Revolution
On this date 34 years ago, Chairman Mao met with his demise.Many say that his death marked the end of the Cultural Revolution. What a disaster.While China woke up after a decade of terror and missed opportunities, things slowly thawed out. Even 10 years after Mao's death, … [Read more...]
Book of the week–House of Stone
I keep finding more narratives about Zimbabwe. Bring it on, I say. I just love reading about the transformation of Rhodesia into Zimbabwe and the hope many people had thirty years ago when Robert Mugabe took office.If only things had gone differently.This week I read … [Read more...]
Postcard from Budapest, 1991
Last week I posted a card I sent from Beijing to my paternal grandma days before I boarded the Trans-Mongolian. The five and a half day train ride took me to Moscow. From there, I traveled by train to Budapest and then on to Prague before flying home to Chicago by way of New … [Read more...]
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