Just Visiting
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Cross-posted from Blog Them Out of the Stone Age
Come July, I’ll be spending a year as the Harold K. Johnson Visiting Professor of Military History at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. I look forward to it. Over the years I’ve been there a number of times, to speak, attend conferences, or do research at the U.S. Army Military History Institute (which is co-located). But my most memorable trip was my first, when, as an undergraduate, I attended its annual, week-long National Security Seminar.
This past weekend I was in Carlisle to look for housing. The USAWC maintains an extensive list of area homes and apartments for rent, and on Saturday I inspected eight of them. They were all in nice shape, and each had its own appeal. I also thoroughly enjoyed talking with the owners and / or tenants: that turned out to be an unexpected pleasure. In the end I selected a 3-bedroom house in downtown Carlisle, within a 30-minute walk of the AWC and only a couple of blocks from Dickinson College.
For quite a while, the prospect of being the Johnson Visiting Professor has remained rather abstract, but this weekend went a long way toward making it concrete.
Home sweet rented home
