Briefly Noted

A lot of almost-bloggable bits that together might constitute a post:

• A Google Map of Lame City Slogans. Prairie du Chien, ""Where the bald eagle soars and the carp drops!"
• In Richmond they are peeling the asphalt off a parking lot to restore a slave burial ground.
• An exhibit at Halifax’s Maritime Museum explores gay life at sea after WW2.
• I was interviewed for this story about Joplin, Missouri, where I used to teach. My friends there are all safe though some lost their homes.
• "Without good metadata . . . archives are as good as closed to many students and scholars." But can a game really change that?