Tag Archives: architecture

here comes the sum(mer)

Summer is here and so is the second 2020 edition of AmericA Magazine with 5 journeylism.nl articles. In New Orleans, Louisiana we listened to the sound of Louis Armstrong. We crossed Crystal Bridges to be embraced by 400 years of American art in Bentonville, Arkansas. In Nederland, Colorado they celebrate Frozen Dead Guy each year […]

the big muddy pyramid

The fact that a fishing store sits in a pyramid in Memphis, Tennessee is the result of a bet Bass Pro Shops owner Johnny Morris made with some of his friends back in 2005. While trying to catch some catfish, their eyes were caught by the huge glass triangle at the bank of the Mississippi […]

the king of concrete

It’s 1913 when Henry C. Mercer, eight construction workers and Lucy the horse step into an open field in Pennsylvania. The nine man and the nag are very upbeat. Three years later they have poured a dream into a concrete castle…click here for the full article published in AmericA Magazine’s winter 2019 edition

winterrrrrrrrrrrr

Like snow, the new AmericA Magazine will fall in the week of December 4, not from the sky or on the ground but from the hand of the postman on a doormat of by simply taking it of the shelve of a quality bookstore. The winter edition features three articles by journeylism.nl, one being Nat […]

steve’s job

From paper boy to millonaire. From start-up to trillion dollar company. From single family home garage to UFO. The story of the two Steves is mesmerizing, fascinating, intriguing especially when you stand in front of the new Apple space ship in Cupertino which appears to be a time warp from the simple house which was […]

autummmmmmmmn

Autumn starts on September 13 this year when the new edition of AmericA Magazine falls on doormats and bookstore shelves like a leaf from a tree. Journeylism contributed three articles including the quarterly American Songbook column, Apple’s evolution from a garage into a UFO and a Northern California road trip framed in (Red-)wood…

the haunted hotel

Railroad tycoon Alex Johnson set out to build South Dakota’s finest hotel. Decorated with Native American symbolism and art, his Tudor style showpiece dominated the skyline of what would be known as the City of Presidents: Rapid City. Apparently, Sir Alex fell so much in love with his palace that he could not part from […]

ghosts in the desert

“There never was another place where, in proportion to the population, so many murders were committed without the criminals being brought to trial or even apprehended.” This is what a certain John Riggs wrote some 130 years ago about the time and place in which the Techatticup mine seems to be frozen in nowadays. Underneath […]