Dr. Walsh's research interests during his early career years focused on the history of behavioral sciences. Within that area he has published many scholarly journal articles--and edited two books--dealing with the history of phrenology as well as others dealing with different aspects of the history of psychology and psychiatry, most of which can be found in the Salve Regina library ( his bibliography can be found here). As a member of the university's "Technological Self-Study Team" in 1984, moreover, Dr. Walsh became immersed in the computerization of our campus. He has retained his interest in computers and technology applied to education to this day. His work over the past several years (Fall, 1995-present) has focused on developing his personal website(which went on line in January, 1996), this psychology web site(which also went on line early in 1996), and the first edition of Salve Regina University's website(on line in the Summer of 1996, now history) & others.

The summer of 2001 found them traveling in Washington State and relaxing on Cape Cod. In Washington State their trip took them to the exciting city of Seattle, and then a grand road trip over 1300 miles around the Olympic Penninsula including the the San Juan Islands, particularly Orcas Island, hiking in Olympic National Park and several indian reservations including the Makah Nation at the Northwestern-most point in the continental U.S.(where they hiked to that point known geographically as Cape Flattery), the Hoh Rain Forest, and Mount Rainer. A view of us hiking on July 6, 2001 at about the 6000 foot level on Mount Rainier can be seen here.

Two long trips were taken during the summer of 2002. One involved a two week+ tour of the Eastern Seaboard from Savannah, GA to Virginia Beach, VA and included stops at Tybee Island, GA, Hilton Head, Charleston, Fort Sumter & Myrtle Beach, SC, Wrightville Beach, Atlantic Beach, Ocracoke Island, Cape Lookout and Cape Hatteras National Seashores, as well as Nags Head and Kitty Hawk. The second trip was a 1200 mile loop to the Adirondacks and back with stops in Stowe, VT, Lake Placid, and Upper Saranac Lake where we stayed at a quintessential Adirondack Camp, the Wawbeek. In this photo we are at the 4867 feet above sea level summit of Whiteface Mountain, sight of the 1980 winter olympic games, with Lake Placid in the background.

For Christmas & New Year's 2009~2010 (as they have since 1990) they returned to their favorite British Virgin Island, Tortola, where they have been vacationing annually since first visiting there on a cruise in the late 1980s. There they spend their time limin'¹ with the rest of the local folks on pristine Long Bay on the North shore, West end of the island. View a few photos of this gorgeous mile-long beach by aaw here. If you use Internet Explorer®, you can view some other pictures by aaw from the BVI in PowerPoint format here and/or click on several samples in the images below.