What Happened at Highland Park?

In the seminar this Thursday, I intend to discuss a problem, an intriguing data source, and some preliminary findings. There is more detail on all of this in the attached text. (I hope to bring with me some illuminating photographic images as well as the figures.) I’m a little bit ahead of the text at the moment and I’m certainly not done with probing the data yet, so I will want both to present to you and to pick your brains a little. But the drift should be clear enough from what follows this note.

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