History and Arch Johnston

Although this blog is about New Madrid history, occasionally other events of note will intrude into the blog.  One of these is the retirement of the noted New Madrid researcher Arch Johnston.  Arch was instrumental in helping to found the Center for Earthquake Research and Information in the 1970's.  He pioneered the use of historic research to rescue  the New Madrid earthquakes from the obscurity they had been residing for over a hundred years.  Although he is retiring from CERI he is not retiring from working on the New Madrid earthquakes.  Too many questions remain unanswered and he will remain on the hunt for the answers to them.