I�m not in Colorado, but my sources there are keeping me abreast of one of my favorite things about summer there: close encounters with bears and cougars in the WUI (the Wildlife Urban Interface). �Today�s news does not disappoint!...

Hey-y�all!

I�m not in Colorado, but my sources there are keeping me abreast of one of my favorite things about summer there: close encounters with bears and cougars in the WUI (the Wildlife Urban Interface). �Today�s news does not disappoint! �A 19-year old camper in Ward was attacked by a bear. �The Denver Post headline explains that the ��youth camp staffer says he woke up with his head in the bear�s jaws.� �Yikes!

The earlier print edition of the headline describes the experience even more dramatically, in my view:

From the Denver Post, July 10, 2017

Never fear, friends! �The updated online version of the story reports that the bear was caught and euthanized. �It makes it sound like the bear was put in a lineup and identified by the victim:

The victim of the attack, a 19-year-old staff member at a youth camp, saw the bear after it was trapped and told officials be believed it was the same bear that attacked him while he was sleeping.

�We think this is the bear that did the attack,� Churchill said.

I can just imagine: ��Number 3 step forward, open your jaws, and breathe heavily.� �If the victim was able to help identify the perp, I�m really impressed�he is one cool customer. �(I am a disaster in an emergency�when calling 911 to report an accident or a house fire, I have given incorrect information because I�m so rattled.)

The Queen�s Guardsmen in their bear fur hats.

I�m overseas now, working hard in the Royal Archives in Windsor Castle. �They have a strict social media policy (and permit no photography indoors whatsoever), so I need to find out what and if I can blog about what I�m finding there and my experiences as a researcher and a tourist. �I hope to get this figured out and resume more regular blogging about what I�m up to. �(The Royal Archives are in the Round Tower, which is cheek-by-jowl with the State Apartments and is considered part of the royal residence.)

In the meantime, I strongly encourage those of you who have any interest in British and/or British Imperial history in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth centuries to apply for a fellowship from the Georgian Papers Programme�at King�s College, London, and its American partner, the Omohundro Institute.�� These are the institutions that have helped me get here, and I�m sure they�ll be interested in hearing from and working with many of you as well!

Until I know I can say more, here�s a pretty photo of my walk back into the village after work this afternoon.

Cheers!

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