[PHOTO] Two maps of High Park (#highpark)

After I came back with a friend from a tour of the sakura of High Park last evening--the upside of the wet and the chill meant that there were no large crowds, at least--we came across this outdoors map of the park just a couple of minutes' walk from the High Park TTC station.



Earlier in our walk, we had come across this map demonstrating where fishing is possible in Grenadier Pond, by far the largest body of water in Toronto's High Park.

[BLOG] Some Monday links

• Ingrid Robeyns at Crooked Timber takes us from her son's accidental cut to the electronic music of Røbic.


• D-Brief explains what the exceptional unexpected brightness of the first galaxies reveals about the universe.


• Far Outliers looks at how President Grant tried to deal with the Ku Klux Klan.


• JSTOR Daily looks at the surprising influence of the Turkish harem on the fashion, at least, of Western women.


• This Kotaku essay arguing that no one should be sitting on the Iron Throne makes even better sense to me now.


• Language Hat looks at the particular forms of French spoken by the famously Francophile Russian elites of the 19th century.


• Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how teaching people to code did not save the residents of an Appalachia community.


• Marginal Revolution notes how, in the early 19th century, the young United States trading extensively with the Caribbean, even with independent Haiti.


• At the NYR Daily, Colm Tóibín looks at the paintings of Pat Steir.


• Peter Rukavina writes about how he has been inspired by the deaths of the Underhays to become more active in local politics.


• Daniel Little at Understanding Society shares his research goals from 1976.


• Window on Eurasia notes the conflicts between the Russian Orthodox Church and some Russian nationalists over the latter's praise of Stalin.


• Arnold Zwicky looks at dragons in history, queer and otherwise.

[URBAN NOTE] Five #cherryblossomsTO links

• blogTO notes that High Park subway station was very crowded Saturday with the crowds looking for the sakura.


• CBC Toronto shares photos of the sakura of High Park.


• blogTO shares photos of the sakura of High Park.


• Toronto Life looks at the weekend sakura of High Park.


• r/toronto shares this beautiful photo showing the cherry blossoms of Exhibition Place.