Environment

 Gumbo likes the idea that there are many places that look alike, and yet have some "feel" of their own that sets them apart.  Experienced travelers looked and placed it in several different locations...none of them bad guesses.

Travel With Lamb pleads the case against exploitation of Asian elephants

Nearly 200 years ago, New York and Brooklyn, then separate cities and the greatest shipping centers on the East Coast, saw the land along the rivers—Hudson and East—begin to fill with docks, piers,  warehouses and freight traffic....