Hatteras Reflections

Hatteras Reflections

John Mancini

Every year at Cape Hatteras, I go on a bike ride along a somewhat fixed path, one that goes first to the Cape Hatteras lighthouse, then past a tiny World War II British cemetery, and from there to a National Park Service campground immediately prior to Beach Access Ramp 43.

Are we at risk of losing our digital history?

Are we at risk of losing our digital history?

John Mancini

As the world becomes more digitalized, we are at of risk losing our history. We are saving files everywhere, often with little idea of how future generations will find them, or whether they will even have an appropriate application to open them. Most digital preservation strategies feel like the digital equivalent of the massive warehouse in Raiders of the Lost Ark -- petabytes and petabytes of information that we'll "someday" go back and sort through.

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Fathers and Baseball

Fathers and Baseball

John Mancini

On October 25, 2019, I finally made it. To my first World Series game. It was only 24,493 days after my father made it to his only World Series appearance. It took a while. As Terrence Mann said, “America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It's been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time.” Yes, 24,493 days is a lot of “time marking.”

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