Trading Path Association

Trading Path Association TPA is a 501C3 non-profit located in Hillsborough, North Carolina, USA.

Its purpose is to find, map, and protect landscape remnants of the contact and colonial era in southeastern North America, on England's first American frontier. In 2011 our organization shifted focus from research and development to promulgating our method to the preservation world and land stewards of all types. Though we still perform demonstration inventories, our primary focus is advocating for better cultural asset protection by means of TPA methods.

How many disgraces must we suffer before we remove the orange toddler; cruelty is our administrator's earmark.
05/19/2026

How many disgraces must we suffer before we remove the orange toddler; cruelty is our administrator's earmark.

During the second Trump administration, the population detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has ballooned.

Plutarch described Imperial Decline in Athens 2000 years ago, and Ibn Khaldun did the same for Islam's retreat from empi...
04/23/2026

Plutarch described Imperial Decline in Athens 2000 years ago, and Ibn Khaldun did the same for Islam's retreat from empire in the 7th century CE. It is rather like a clockwork system...perhaps a Coo Coo clockwork.

Writing more than 2,000 years ago, the Greek historian Plutarch gave us an eloquent description of what modern historians now call “micro-militarism.” When an imperial power like Athens then, or America now, is in decline,

01/01/2026

Congress neednot meet in Washington now that it can meet virtually. Onlylobbyists benefit by having Congress in DC. For lobbyist ,Washington is target rich. if Congress stayed home lobbying costs would soar while its effects would plummet. Keep 'em home, with their constiuents, where they belong.

10/09/2025

MAGA's false narrative grows with repetition. Educate adjudicate, and destroy that narrative

And now, TaDa:  Government by terror
08/26/2025

And now, TaDa: Government by terror

How “Show me the man, and I’ll show you the crime” is rewriting American justice…

Prof HCR, bless her heart, suggests that the time '...they may be a changin".  Dare we hope?
08/02/2025

Prof HCR, bless her heart, suggests that the time '...they may be a changin". Dare we hope?

On Monday, at a meeting with U.K.

Like tuition, the cost of fame can be very, very high.....
07/30/2025

Like tuition, the cost of fame can be very, very high.....

07/27/2025

DOWN WITH TRUMP!

07/27/2025

Understatement of the month: Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC), whose support for Hegseth earned him Senate confirmation, recently told CNN: “With the passing of time, I think it’s clear he’s out of his depth as a manager of a large, complex organization.”

A warning from Prof HCR, it can happen again:
07/26/2025

A warning from Prof HCR, it can happen again:

“We’re going to end up shooting some of them.”

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