Abstract
I grew up in Newark, New Jersey. I loved its streets and its people. I loved the public schools, the No. 13 trolley that carried passengers down Clinton Avenue to the downtown area, to Bamberger's, Hahnes' and Kresge's, to the Newark Museum and especially the public library. For eighteen or more years I had never been outside of New Jersey or New York, but in the library I found the world. And I could float in my imagination to the Indian sub-continent, to China and Japan, to the great European capitals, to Oceania and beyond. I found a great fascination in maps and the questions they inspired. Where is Athens? How long has it been a civilized community? Why did it become the prime urban center of Greece? And what has happened to it through time? Katmandu, New Orleans, Dacca, the Great Basin, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, Quebec, the Taj Mahal and the Red Fort, the Valley of the Sun, Thessalonika, Cairo . . . and so many others. Places. Memories.
Recommended Citation
Jacobson, Daniel
(1994)
"Projections and Perceptions-Editoria Comments. Places,"
The Geographical Bulletin: Vol. 36:
Iss.
1, Article 1.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/thegeographicalbulletin/vol36/iss1/1