Tag: Missouri Bootheel

  • John Hardeman Walker’s Bootheel

    I sometimes wonder about unusually-shaped geopolitical boundaries. Sometimes I find it’s due to specific geographic features as with The Gambia. Other times it arises from territorial clashes as with the Temburong exclave of Brunei Darussalam. Generally speaking, the stranger the shape the better the story. So I got to wondering about the Missouri Bootheel. That’s…

  • Arkansas (finally) Checks In!

    Many of you will recall my recent posting about Google Analytics. It’s a wonderful tool that Google provides for people who like to leaf through maps for hours on end. It serves as such a delightful diversion. In that post I whined a bit about a lack of traffic from Arkansas. I’d installed Google Analytics…