The New England Diaspora - Keeping in touch with home

The number of New Englanders living now living outside New England is unknown but huge.

For those who want to keep in touch with home, the various ABC radio regional web sites provide access to some information. Those sites are:

• Newcastle
• Upper Hunter
• Mid North Coast
• North Coast
• New England North West
• Western Plains (part)

New England Tablelands scenes - Gordon Smith's Grass Trees in the Mist

I thought that this photo by Gordon Smith, Grass Trees in the Mist, captures one element of the New England Tablelands rather well.

The mist that sometimes shrouds the Tablelands creates a very different feel. The landscape softens and becomes mysterious.

Enjoy.

My disappointment with Ted Koppel

I was listening to NPR's Talk of the Nation while driving home tonight: the topic was the federal deficit. They brought in Ted Koppel to talk about it, and he was asked the difference between the national debt and the deficit--and he couldn't answer.

It did not so much disappointment me that he didn't know (although the distinction is pretty easy--the debt is a stock and the deficit is a flow). It disappointed me that given that he knew he didn't know, he still thought he had something worthwhile to say about the issue.

New England's Aborigines

Short post to say that over at the New England History blog I have put up a long stocktake post drawing togther some of the posts I have written across blogs dealing with New England's Aboriginal peoples.

I think that this is an important topic. While the stocktake post is very long, I hope that it contains some material of interest.