Today I got a huge compliment from Terry Trowbridge, a sociolegal scholar with many poems and scholarly articles published in a number of diverse journals. Terry commented on my Major Research Project (MRP), completed at Brock University as part of the requirements for my Master of Arts degree, which I received in 2020.

The MRP is entitled The Development of the Poetry Walking Tour of Niagara Falls Using Mobile App Technology, and is available on the Brock University website, my website, on ResearchGate, and Google Scholar. It details some background information on Niagara poetry, the use of mobile apps in tourism, crowdsourcing, print and electronic anthologies, and a detailed explanation of how the Poetry Walking Tour was conceived and executed.

Terry wrote on ResearchGate:

Andrew Porteus is the most dedicated scholar of Canada’s Niagara region culture who I know. I strongly recommend this MRP to anyone who is developing projects in public history, multimedia literature, and interactive tours.

I take this as a tremendous compliment from a scholar who encouraged me tremendously (often at local poetry readings in pubs) in the early phases of the development of the Niagara Falls Poetry Project, and encouraged me to go to Brock University and bring some serious scholarly insight to the site.

Thanks very much, Terry.