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Notes from the Field
The "Mosquito Museum" 
What kind of interpretive exhibit really gives you a buzz? How about a museum on mosquitoes?! Since I spent much of 2024 and part of 2025 developing text for the new Disease Vector Education Center (aka The Mosquito Museum) in St. Augustine, FL, I can guarantee that you’ll have a great time!
The center introduces visitors to the world’s tiniest, deadliest, peskiest insects and other arthropods that help and/or hinder human life on earth. You can play detective to identify mosquito-borne diseases, use digital microscopes, feed mosquito larvae to hungry mosquitofish, and climb into a real helicopter for a simulated coastline spraying mission. Our team worked hard to make this unusual science museum a must-see stop. Click here to see a great review in The Washington Post.
Mary Lou Williams: Jazz Legend
Last fall a local musician called me for a small but very cool project in my own backyard: A wayside sign about jazz great Mary Lou Williams, who was born in the intown Atlanta community of Edgewood. I’m happy to report that on May 3, 2025, we celebrated the installation of this interpretive wayside in Edgewood Garden, about a block from Mary Lou’s home. To learn more about this great keyboardist who arranged music and played with Duke Ellington, Tommy Dorsey, Dizzie Gillespie, and more, click here. A celebration of the life and music of Atlanta’s Mary Lou Williams - ARTS ATL
When's the last time you looked out over Washington, D.C., from the top of the Washington Monument? Try it again this spring, when this iconic landmark reopens, with earthquake repairs and new exhibits planned by a team including yours truly. READ MORE
Every time I work on interpretive panels for another National Wildlife Refuge, I am astonished – again! – by the incredible journeys made by millions of birds every year. Read more...
Thanks to funding from the FHWA National Scenic Byways program, we have a great assignment this fall: creating interpretive signs for a section of El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail in Santa Fe, NM. Read More...
How does a fast-growing city keep its trees? Just ask Trees Atlanta – a non-profit dedicated to protecting existing trees and planting new ones throughout metro ATL.
GIG just finished TA's new signage! Read more...
A lone lifeguard chair remains at Horseshoe Bend Beach in Montana's Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area.
I'm spending most of a Georgia January daydreaming of faraway places-- Read More