Robert Browman

A birthday tribute to the famed transcendentalist.

Lorelei Scarbro spends each day on her ancestral land in an Appalachian hollow living in fear that a coal company will soon destroy the mountain way of life she holds dear. Scarbro, a 54-year-old grandmother and coal-miner’s widow, lives in a house built by her late husband in the shadow of one of the last untouched mountains in the area, Coal River Mountain. Massey Energy is poised to blast it to smithereens.

A profile of a controversial coal company CEO.
 

Dr. Eloisa Tamez’s family has lived on land just north of the Rio Grande for over 250 years. Last August, the government called and threatened to take it away.

A trip to visit family and friends gave me the opportunity to introduce my young son to an old love, the sea.

Recent hurricanes brought up some memories of the people I photographed during Haiti’s 2004 political crisis.

Should the man with the largest credibility problem in the country be in charge of wiretapping American citizens?

A remembrance of the life lessons learned at a family-run business.