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Voices In Time

2015 | Flint, MI

Public Disservice

What emergency?More

Voices In Time

1770 | Bath

Germ Bath

Tobias Smollett refuses to take the waters.More

Voices In Time

1558 | London

Choose Wisely

William Bullein sees water’s grossness and salubriousness.More

Voices In Time

1894 | Lourdes

Immersion Therapy

Émile Zola sends a man underwater.More

Voices In Time

1869 | Washington, DC

Theory and Practice

Cyrus Thomas predicts “a gradual increase of moisture.” More

Voices In Time

1848 | London

Cesspool

An ode to a stinky river.More

Voices In Time

1903 | Mojave Desert

Facts on the Ground

Mary Austin looks where water was.More

Voices In Time

1893 | Sicily

High and Dry

Italy gets a bit parched.More

Voices In Time

1357 | London

Cradle of Filth

If you smell something, say something.More

Voices In Time

1675 | Delft

Small World

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek finds life under the microscope.More

Voices In Time

c. 97 | Rome

Plumbing

Keeping up the aqueducts.More

Voices In Time

1857 | Mississippi River

Water Reading

Mark Twain learns to steer.More

Voices In Time

1904 | London

The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water

William Butler Yeats sees the future in the water’s past.More

Voices In Time

1905 | Yuma County, AZ

Dry Country

A thirsty man gets desperate in the desert.More

Voices In Time

c. 1535 | Europe

Mineral Water

Paracelsus goes back to the beginning of an element.More

Voices In Time

1837 | Lake Huron

Sparkling Waters

Anna Jameson voyages in a Canadian canoe.More

Voices In Time

1789 | Iceland

Jet Set

John Thomas Stanley celebrates a geyser.More

Voices In Time

1717 | London

A King’s Pleasure

On the first performance of Handel’s “Water Music.”More

Voices In Time

1625 | London

Fountainhead

Francis Bacon on water that sprinkleth or spouteth.More

Voices In Time

c. 350 BC | Athens

Primary Source

Aristotle ponders the nature of water.More

Voices In Time

c. 1843 | Lafourche Parish, LA

Safe Passage

Solomon Northup swims to freedom.More

Voices In Time

1854 | London

Infection Point

John Snow locates the source.More

Voices In Time

1846 | Concord, MA

Ice Breakers

Walden Pond freezes over.More

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