network engineers and far-flung experts in his journey to visit the physical place that is “the Internet.” He drives along the Jersey Shore in an attempt to locate where the underwater cable from Europe rises out of the Atlantic. He visits Portugal to see where Europe and Africa really connect. And he enters the subterranean world of New York’s utility workers, men in hardhats who lay mile upon mile of optical fiber under the metropolis each night.

One of his stops is in Ashburn, Virginia, in the suburbs of Washington D.C., about three miles from Dulles airport, where the massive tubes of the Internet literally come out of the ground. This network warehouse farm—like others Blum visits in Los Angeles, New York, Oregon, London, and Frankfurt—is where the routing6,000 honor tribal leader, fishing rights activist Billy Frank Jr.

”His legacy is going to live on until the end of time,” said Willie Frank, recalling his father, Billy Frank Jr., at a memorial Sunday at the Little Creek Casino in Shelton that honored the environmental and Indian fishing rights activist who passed away May 5.

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A video featuring photos of Nisqually tribal elder and chairman of the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission Billy Frank Jr. are displayed at the Squaxin Island Event Center as part of Sunday’s public memorial for the Frank.

”His legacy is going to live on until the end of time,” said Willie Frank, recalling his father, Billy Frank Jr., at a memorial Sunday at the Little Creek Casino in Shelton that honored the