Author: Wendy Lathrop, PS, CFM, CFS

It is always interesting to me to find out that people actually read what I write (I have no way to know unless…

No one uses words like that anymore!” This statement, uttered with a laugh by someone to whom I was describing a recent deed…

Cemeteries: graveyards, burial grounds, areas set apart for internment of the dead. That’s a generic definition, but do we know a cemetery when…

The concept of letting water into a building in order to protect it may seem a little perverse. But the idea is to…

As surveyors, we encounter tracts of land that have different values depending upon who is making the assessment. Today’s example relates to a…

Because of the lapse of several months between when articles are written and when they are published, occasionally some stories have postscripts that…

Once upon a time (1989 to be exact) in a place not so far away from where I live, a man (Francis Galdo)…

John O’Brien is a well-known illustrator and cartoonist, notably for The New Yorker. In 1995, he created a cartoon of four hikers roped…

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