Martin Schell

Martin Schell is a native New Yorker who got lost on the subway a quarter of a century ago and ended up in Central Java, where he spends a large part of each year in his wife’s hometown. He enjoys tropical gardening on 1/3 acre as a hobby, mostly planting and caring for fruit trees. After half a dozen mango trees planted from seeds matured enough to bear fruit, he realized that harvesting would be a daunting task. He fancies himself an independent scholar, having published a handful of articles in fields as diverse as gemology, knowledge management, sociolinguistics, and the endogenous development of Indonesian villages.