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Frontiers of Science
Cameron Strang takes American scientific thought and discoveries away from the learned societies, museums, and teaching halls of the Northeast and puts the production of knowledge about the natural world in the context of competing empires and an expanding republic in the Gulf South. People often dismissed by starched northeasterners as nonintellectuals--Indian sages, African slaves, Spanish officials, Irishmen on the make, clearers of land and drivers of men--were also scientific observers, gatherers, organizers, and reporters. Skulls and stems, birds and bugs, rocks and maps, tall tales and fertile hypotheses came from them. They collected, described, and sent the objects that scientists g...
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Rolling Into the World
A famous trick of the Cameron kids, not at all appreciated by the projectionist at the old Beachport hall, was our very early version of a backward "Mexican wave". We'd occupy the front row of the wooden benches, then just as "God Save the Queen" struck up, we'd simultaneously throw ourselves backwards. The domino effect was nothing short of spectacular. There'd be three or four rows of upturned benches with kids yelling and carrying on, arms and legs sticking up everywhere. Further back the grown-ups would be "tut tutting" and making remarks about "badly brought up children". We soon abandoned this stunt however, fun and all as it was, after getting banned from the pictures for a week.
