Marek Kohn

@marekkohn.bsky.social

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Writer: science, society, diversity, identity. Latest book: The Stories Old Towns Tell. Latest revised book: Dope Girls. No srach. marekkohn.info

Sky News report on England football team preparations says that Mexico City is more than 2200 *miles* above sea level
Poster holding up cover of 12F magazine, headlined ‘F*ck it, I’m European’
Me by canal in Amsterdam looking at book entitled ‘F*ck, it, I’m European’ - 12 Flowers. www.12f.eu
Sign for Reykjavik Penis Museum, with shoreline in background and atmospheric clouds
A photo taken in an Amsterdam bar at 23.07 on 31.1.2020, 7 minutes after the UK left the EU. It shows a scarf with the EU stars arranged on a candle-lit table, with a poster from Brighton's (and my) Club Europ Express pro-European project, showing the slogan 'Because we're still European and always will be'.
'For over sixty years, Bobby took to the road. A guitarist, vocalist, storyteller, and founding member of the Grateful Dead. Bobby will forever be a guiding force whose unique artistry reshaped American music. His work did more than fill rooms with music; it was warm sunlight that filled the soul, building a community, a language, and a feeling of family that generations of fans carry with them. Every chord he played, every word he sang was an integral part of the stories he wove. There was an invitation: to feel, to question, to wander, and to belong.' Tribute to Bob Weir, https://bobweir.net/bobby/
Screenshot of page saying access to Polish shelter map denied by firewall, in Polish, English and Ukrainian
screenshot of Google map showing location of fossil mammoth find overlapping symbol for 'restaurant', the Grenadier pub
Protesters in central Brussels: demo against government policies especially raising pension age to 67
Screenshot of automatically generated Bluesky app query 'Are you writing in Polish?'
Reconstruction of archaeologists' 1970 camp at Tustan Fortress, Skole National Park, in the Ukrainian Carpathians: tents, a campfire, clothes on a washing line in the background, a Volga car in the foreground.
Bhangra Fusion performer at Summer Fusion Festival, Jubilee Square, Brighton, 7.9.25, with a St George's (English) flag decorating his drum.
Dried mushrooms on sale in Slavske, in the Ukrainian Carpathian mountains. The tub on the right appears to contain toxic / hallucinogenic fly agarics.
Picking dog-rose hips in Brighton garden
Lviv, old town, Virmenska Street. A tarpaulin-type screen covering the front of a building undergoing works displays images of enemy attacks on Ukrainian heritage buildings. Texts: 'These are not images of this reconstruction', 'This is heritage destroyed by russ*a', 'Donate to stop the terrorists' (with QR code).
Text from Ronald Hutton's Stations of the Sun, describing 4th-century account of pagans in SW France rolling a burning wheel down a hill to river.
New York State Police officers at Grand Central Station, New York, looking at their phones.
Racing driver Andy Wallace sets a new speed record in a Bugatti Mistral.
t-shirt with US Air Force roundel, made in Canada
Sign reading 'Preacher Parking Only. You Park, You Preach'. Bisbee, AZ
'Welcome to Bisbee' sign showing 'closed' for most of the week.
Display of books about Ukraine in Bisbee Books& Music, Arizona.
Rothenburg ob der Tauber from city wall, showing buildings mostly reconstructed after WW2.
Headlines from 1922 newspaper article, Evening News (London) 13 March, 'A Cocaine Victim At 17'.
The Ukrainian national anthem, sung at the war memorial in Brighton, marking the 3rd anniversary of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Poster for Ukrainian Memorial Day gathering, 23 Feb, Brighton Unitarian Church. 3.30–6.30pm
Flower crowns at Kupala Ukrainian midsummer festival, Brighton, 2023
Front cover of The Stories Old Towns Tell: A Journey through Cities at the Heart of Europe, paperback edition, featuring image of the Römer building in the post-WW2 ruins of Frankfurt.
Plac Zamkowy / Castle Square, Warsaw 1945. Ruined buildings of the Old Town behind toppled statue and column of King Zygmunt III Waza.
Podkowa Leśna, fot. Paweł Jackowski - CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia
Toppled statue of King Zygmunt III Waza, Plac Zamkowy / Castle Square, Warsaw 1945
Polish soldiers outside ruined church in Krakowskie Przedmieście, Warsaw, after entering the city 17.1.45. Wikimedia
A backstreet in the Old Town of Lublin, south-eastern Poland.
Man posing with old machine gun at display about Poland's 'cursed soldiers', post-WW2 anticommunist guerrillas, Rynek, Kraków 2018.
cover of paperback edition of The Stories Old Towns Tell, by Marek Kohn
Holly branches on sale in Brighton, £5
Vigil for Ukraine, 22.11.24, 17.30 Brighton BN2 9QA
Razom, the Rose Hill, BN1 4JL, 17.11 2-6pm. An afternoon with the local Ukrainian community and friends, sharing music, food and chat.