This summer, I was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to study the Port of New York and New Jersey. I was given this fellowship because I teach a course in maritime culture at Clatsop Community College. This became a great opportunity for me to compare an enormous, global port with our own and to see what I could learn by comparing the two.
There were 20 of us in the group — mostly university professors from Boston, New York, Providence and Baltimore. I was the only instructor to come from a tiny community college in Oregon. I was more than a bit jet-lagged on Day 1 because I had just flown in after halibut fishing in Alaska.
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