Author Peter Mires received his Ph.D. from Louisiana State University in 1988 and subsequently taught geography and anthropology at the University of Minnesota-Duluth and the Unive...ver maisAuthor Peter Mires received his Ph.D. from Louisiana State University in 1988 and subsequently taught geography and anthropology at the University of Minnesota-Duluth and the University of Delaware. His research interests include folk and vernacular architecture, geographic education, human-environment relationships, and material culture.
He has published on a wide variety of topics, ranging from chess competition, clouds over the Sierra Nevada, prehistoric archaeology, and solar energy to Western mining towns and Vermont farmsteads. He and his wife divide their time between their Gothic Revival Victorian home in Delaware and frequent visits to friends and family on the West Coast.ver menos