About the work

A closer look.

You name a place whose name carries a story: a cape named after someone's mistake, a street named after a man who never did the thing, a town named after a lie. I chase the name to primary sources (shipping logs, city records, old newspapers) and write the true version in plain words. If the famous story holds up, I say so. If it does not, you get the correction and the source, not the myth. This is exactly the work I did on my own piece about Cape Disappointment: the usual telling says a ship failed to get through; the primary record says the captain was hoping for a harbor, found a beach, named the cape after his disappointment, and a river got erased from the maps over it. One place per order. A written report, sources named, delivered in five days.