Bill Cronon

UW-Madison has just posted a story with lovely photos of my retirement celebration on 4/30, complete with a link to a video of the lecture I gave. So great to be there with so many students and other old friends! news.wisc.edu/cronon-returns…

@drhollymcgee @UWHistoryDept I absolutely DO remember you, Holly. Great to hear from you! Thanks for your kind words.

Hey, @wcronon! Did I hear correctly that you’re retiring?! You likely won’t remember me from my days @UWHistoryDept, but I’ll never forget YOU or the amazing example you set in the classroom. Who wants to “be like Mike” when they can “be like Cronon!”

@VileisisAnn Thanks, Ann!

@wcronon Congratulations on your "retirement" Bill, which I know will, in fact, be more work writing! As one of many former students, surfing a lifetime of Cronon-inspiration, I send appreciation, admiration, and love for this wonderful milestone celebration in your honor!

It's been a very long time since I've posted on Twitter, but I thought I should share this story that UW-Madison has just released about my upcoming retirement celebration next weekend: ls.wisc.edu/news/delayed-g…

@mdockryforest Glad you can come, Mike. It'll be great to see you.

@aledaws Yeah, I'm hoping they'll change that on Monday when everyone is back at work. But no, Wisconsin doesn't share a border with Manitoba.

@hellokaitlin Grin. Yeah, that error crept in without my noticing; I've asked them to fix it, but it probably won't happen until Monday.

@wcronon Congratulations, and hope to find the conference proceedings online! I had missed this news. I do wonder about the reference to Winnipeg being in Ontario, though. Did Doug Ford annex it recently?

NYT article with excellent animated graphics compares US and Japanese building practices address (or not addressing) earthquake risk: nyti.ms/2K6XVle

It's true that I've never published a word from this long-ago project, though it did eventually leading (via a rather winding path) to the book Nature's Metropolis. I'm grateful that @samwetherell took the trouble to have a look at it!

@guprofbc Yup! Liz is great.

I've somehow never before stumbled on the Weather Spark website, which has amazingly detailed graphical summaries of weather/climate data for many major cities/airports everywhere on earth. Well worth bookmarking for future reference: weatherspark.com

Remembering my friend David Brion Davis, who died this past Sunday: a giant who helped redefine our understanding of the history of slavery not just in the United States but in the world. RIP. nyti.ms/2VLWOtu

Nicely presented reprinting @PlacesJournal of Benton MacKaye's 1921 article proposing the creation of an "Appalachian Trail," with an excellent introdution by Garrett Dash Nelson @en_dash. If you've never read this classic piece, here's your chance! bit.ly/2Ih7Bb9

I finally got over to Special Collections at UW-Madison's Memorial Library today to see the wonderful new exhibition on the life and work of Aldo Leopold. If you can get there before May 24, you won't regret it: bit.ly/2J918kE

The periodic table is 150 years old this week. Here's a nice explainer @TheEconomist about the story of how it came into being: econ.st/2EkIiSc

An amazing victory for public lands today, including after years of effort permanent reauthorization of the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF). It likely won't get the notice it deserves because of other news, but this is a really big story! bit.ly/2BVNBXB

Apologies for the self-promotion, but I can't resist sharing this one: bit.ly/2GsqyHN

If you haven't yet seen the superb NYT graphic narrative on the Brazilian dam collapse at Brumadinho on 1/25/19, it's not to be missed: nyti.ms/2GmQYeb

Very cool: subscribers to National Geographic @NatGeo now have access to more than 6000 high-resolution digital versions of the maps it has published since 1888: bit.ly/2GbfBFT (alas, you have to locate them by browsing individual issues, but still...)