The Curt Brown Chronicles – by Michael Pallamary.<\/p>\n
For those of you who don’t know, Curtis M. Brown was a surveyor and the author of arguably the most cited books on surveying in the United States, On Boundaries and Surveying<\/em> and\u00a0 Evidence and Procedures for Boundary Location<\/em>. Michael Pallamary is someone who I call a friend. He is also a surveyor and author living in California. One reviewer said, “Pallamary has just published a 671-page collection of Brown\u2019s writings and lectures. \u201cThe Curt Brown Chronicles\u201d (Authorhouse) is a surveyor\u2019s bowl of creme brulee:<\/em> The history, science, equipment, ethics and complex law underlying the ownership of land, the source of so much joy, sorrow and bloodshed.”<\/p>\n I received the new, thick, very handsome volume in the mail a few days ago and cleared my current reading so I could make room for this book. It is a compilation with commentary of many of Brown’s published works and stories of his life. I am a few tens of pages into the book as I write this post and am certainly NOT disappointed! Normally I will write about a book in the form of a review after finishing it. This one promises to be special and so it gets different treatment.<\/p>\n Thanks, Michael.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Curtis M. Brown was a surveyor and the author of arguably the most cited books on surveying in the United States. Pallamary’s 671-page collection of Brown\u2019s writings “The Curt Brown Chronicles\u201d chronicles the history, science, equipment, ethics and complex law underlying the ownership of land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-films","category-history","category-surveying"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1DORt-5X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1356,"url":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/05\/surveying\/","url_meta":{"origin":369,"position":0},"title":"WHY SURVEYING?","author":"TonyC","date":"January 5, 2015","format":"gallery","excerpt":"What if Christopher Columbus had not set sail in 1492? He was beckoned irresistibly by the sea with all of its hidden treasures. Surveying has wooed surveyors for centuries. We surveyors are also explorers, discoverers and pioneers.","rel":"","context":"In "History\/Politics"","block_context":{"text":"History\/Politics","link":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/category\/history\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Columbus seduced by the sea.","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/columbus-thinking-117x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":370,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gpsman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}