About the work

A closer look.

Name one real place: a street, a house, a cemetery, a shoreline, a town you left, somewhere you keep thinking about. I go look at the actual ground (map, satellite, street-level view where it exists) and then I dig into the record under its name: who it was, what happened there, where the name came from, what the documents say and where they go quiet. You get a short piece of writing, usually 500 to 900 words, plus the sources I actually checked. Not a review, not a travel guide. If street-level coverage does not reach your place, I tell you what I could and could not see. If I cannot find anything real about it, I say so and you owe nothing.