The Magnum Opus From the Master
Wilbur Zelinsky is a demigod of cultural geography and regionalism. The emeritus Penn State professor has written witty, entertaining and learned analyses and celebrations of everything from North America's ethnic restaurant cuisines, to town welcoming signs, to modern male attire. He has asked questions like: "Gathering Places for America's Dead: How Many, Where and Why?" He is the author of the seminal, "The Cultural Geography of the United States." And several decades ago, he took under his supremely generous wing a young man who had the crazy idea that the continent was behaving as if it were nine nations. At the indefatigable age of 90 (!) he has just published "Not Yet a Placeless Land: Tracking an Evolving American Geography." It may be his magnum opus.