Cemeteries: graveyards, burial grounds, areas set apart for internment of the dead. That’s a generic definition, but do we know a cemetery when…
Category: Vantage Point
Wendy Lathrop, PS
05.09.2018
Vantage Point: Open Up and Let the Waters In
The concept of letting water into a building in order to protect it may seem a little perverse. But the idea is to…
04.11.2018
Vantage Point: One Parcel, Three Views
As surveyors, we encounter tracts of land that have different values depending upon who is making the assessment. Today’s example relates to a…
03.13.2018
Vantage Point: The Rest of the Story (Times Two)
Because of the lapse of several months between when articles are written and when they are published, occasionally some stories have postscripts that…
02.15.2018
Vantage Point: Fighting City Hall Over Land
Once upon a time (1989 to be exact) in a place not so far away from where I live, a man (Francis Galdo)…
01.15.2018
Vantage Point: The Highest Point
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…
11.24.2017
Vantage Point: More Questions than Answers
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10.21.2017
Vantage Point: How to Help
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09.22.2017
Vantage Point: Radioactive
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08.25.2017
Vantage Point: What’s in a Name?
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