Author: Harrison
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“In the Rearview” history series: 10 weeks of the fascinating and strange in Taos, NM
Taos, New Mexico, is not an ordinary American town. In many ways, it is anything but ordinary. A mountain town that is adjacent to one of the oldest continuously inhabited Native communities in the United States, an early site of Spanish settlement in the 1600s, and the home of prominent characters of the Wild West,…
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Read “New hydroponic greenhouse in San Cristobal grows ‘supercharged’ produce” in The Taos News
After the Fukushima disaster spread radiation to the North American Pacific coastline, two Alaskans moved to Taos County. They started a hydroponic farm, and now they’re growing tomatoes with sugar concentrations that are almost off-the-charts. Curiously, their customers report what might be considered ‘miraculous’ results. Read on and decide for yourself. My latest feature for…
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Read “The Plague of Taos?: A History of Plague in New Mexico” in The Taos News
New Mexico has a problem with bubonic plague. It first arrived in the state in 1949, but at the time, not many imagined that it would never leave. In 2017, there have already been three cases of plague in humans. But the plague had a long journey to New Mexico. Read my feature story published…
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Read Tortoise’s 2017 Issue Now
The 2017 issue of ‘Tortoise: A Journal of Writing Pedagogy’ is now online and available. The theme this year is ‘Risk-taking in academic writing.’ Over the past year, my staff reviewed more than 87 academic papers, and we selected 15 for publication, with topics ranging from The Great British Bake Off, to Assassin’s Creed, to…
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Watch “Princeton’s Lost Museum” lecture
On May 11, 2017, I presented my junior research project, “Princeton’s Lost Museum: Arnold Guyot and the History of American Natural Science.” Watch the talk by following the link below, courtesy of Georgette Chalker. https://mediacentral.princeton.edu/media/Princeton%27s+Lost+MuseumA+Arnold+Guyot%27s+E.+M.+Museum+and+the+history+of+American+natural+science/1_ykcgzkin
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C.K. Williams Reading on February 17
On February 17, 2017, I will be reading from my fiction thesis along with my classmates as part of the C.K. Williams Reading Series hosted by the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing. The event will be held at 6 p.m. at Labyrinth Books. Learn more here. The reading series is held…
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Appearance on WPRB: Talking “Blood Falls”
I appeared on Brian Kraus’ science radio show, “These Vibes are Too Cosmic” for WPRB. In the 11/22/16 episode, I talk about “Blood Falls,” a geologic phenomenon in Antarctica featured as a plot point in my (forthcoming) creative thesis. (The Blood Falls section starts at 00:40). Tune in to “These Vibes are Too Cosmic” every Tuesday…
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Read “The Ashes of Moria” in The Nassau Weekly
This past summer, I visited Lesbos as part of a Princeton journalism class on the refugee crisis. A month after our class visited the Moria refugee camp, its occupants rioted and burned Moria to the ground. This is my account of visiting Lesbos–-during the calm before the storm. While difficult to perceive, there were clues…
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Read news articles on the refugee crisis with “Borderland”
This past July, I was part of a Princeton journalism seminar on the refugee crisis in Greece. For five weeks, my class conducted investigative reporting in Athens and Lesbos. Here is our news site, Borderland, home to our articles and even a short documentary. Through our articles, it is possible to get a sense of…
