Robert Barry (Mason)

@RobertBarry
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Robert Mason is an archaeologist at the University of Toronto & the Royal Ontario Museum. He does science on stuff, & has worked on castles & monasteries.

Robert Barry writes fantasy and science-fiction stories, he has published some of them on Amazon but plans to broaden his platform.

Robert Barry Mason has a garden with flowers, veggies, fairies, gnomes and a railway.

#Archaeology #AmWritingSFF #garden #Archaeometry #ArchaeologyOfStuff

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Robert Barry (Mason)Apr 29, 2024
Daffodils and tulips in the garden.
Robert Barry (Mason)Apr 24, 2024
This was put in one of my Twitter accounts. I don't follow him, never liked anything vaguely resembling this rubbish. That a white South African feels being aware of racism is a bad thing is disturbing, but not as disturbing as the fact he owns Twitter,
Robert Barry (Mason)Mar 28, 2024
Signs of life in the Fairy Garden!
Robert Barry (Mason)Mar 7, 2024

Has anything every happened that turned your life around? That made you take the better path? That made you who you are today? I have, and its in a story out on Medium in the "Change" contest with Tantalising Tales.

https://medium.com/tantalizing-tales/to-dream-of-change-e55c7621b6a6

To Dream of Change - Tantalizing Tales - Medium

I have always felt a resonance with ancient places and the people that built them, and have delighted in the tales that the people of the past left behind. So for as long as I can remember I have…

Tantalizing Tales
Robert Barry (Mason)Mar 7, 2024
I am thinking of using this photo for a story in Medium. It's me in an abandoned fort in Saudi Arabia in 1977. Does it look clear enough?
Robert Barry (Mason)Mar 6, 2024

I recently started posting stories on Medium, but now I hear of people losing their accounts and stories without warning or explanation.

Can you fill us in @coachtony ?

Robert Barry (Mason)Dec 23, 2022

I've just finished a piece about the three remarkable daughters of the Old Took. Have a look!

https://medium.com/@Robert_Barry/the-three-remarkable-daughters-of-the-old-took-38e49a17a4a2

#Gandalf

The three remarkable daughters of the Old Took - Robert Barry - Medium

I have often thought that the most interesting untold story of Tolkien’s Middle Earth concerns the three remarkable daughters of Gerontius Took. Most of what we know comes from the Appendices of Lord…

Medium
Robert Barry (Mason)Dec 18, 2022
I just made my own Middle-Earth in Google Earth map. I placed Hobbiton at Oxford, which is the landscape that Tolkien's children would know best. The downs are on the wrong side, but this IS fantasy cartography at it's most esoteric.
#Tolkien #MiddleEarth
Robert Barry (Mason)Dec 16, 2022
My first novel, Denizens of the Crystal Lattice, written in 1991 & published under my pen-name of Aelfan Corylus, is up on more platforms. Yes I have two pen-names!
Robert Barry (Mason)Dec 15, 2022
Jens NotroffDec 15, 2022

"That is unimaginable poverty. It’s a poverty of the ecosystem; it’s a poverty of culture; it’s a poverty of spirit."

As #chinook numbers migrating to #Canada fall 95% to record lows, #Indigenous communities are resorting to importing fish to keep their traditions alive:

RT @[email protected]

Yukon First Nations built their culture around salmon. Now they have to fly it in frozen.
My story in the Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/05/canada-first-nations-yukon-river-chinook-salmon

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/GeneseeKeevil/status/1600167134948380672

‘A soul wound’: a First Nation built its culture around salmon. Now they have to fly it in frozen

As chinook numbers migrating to Canada fall 95% to record lows, communities are resorting to importing fish to keep their traditions alive

The Guardian