Edith Wharton’s Art History Lesson in San Vivaldo
by Don Benson In a rather remote village in the southern hills of Tuscany is an ancient monastery. There is a church and eighteen separate free-standing chapels. We – four…
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San Buenaventura: Erle Stanley Gardner’s Town of Grace
by L.J. Martin Old California. What a gracious time it was. A time when it was said, It’s better to be on time than invited. When you were never late…
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A Mountain Climber’s Dream: Vivienne de Watteville’s Mount Kenya
by Helen Palmer On Christmas Day 1928, a young British woman arrived to live in a hut on the slopes of Mount Kenya. She had marched for two days to…
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Gabriela & Graciela: Two Lovers in Paraty, Brasil
by David Adair If you’ve ever felt the peculiar desire to be slowly tortured by excruciating and seductive beauty, then take the four-hour Costa Verde bus ride from Rio de…
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James Dickey’s Leesburg: The House of Deliverance
by Mac Carey The small historic town of Leesburg Virginia certainly doesn’t bring forth my atavistic desires and primordial rage, even less so does the stately Glenfiddich house, situated in…
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A Murakami-esque Day: Banalities & Absurdities in Beijing
by Sarah Menkedick “Memory is like fiction; or else it’s fiction that’s like memory.” – Haruki Murakami, “The Last Lawn of the Afternoon,” The Elephant Vanishes It was on the…
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A Protester in China: The Life of Lu Xun
by James L. Secor Despite the nouveau rich careening madly around town in their upscale imported cars and SUVs, Shaoxing, China still retains much of its slow, gentle character. The…
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Ode to the Australian Outback through Dorothea McKellar
by Ellen & David Hill At Davy Byrne’s pub in Dublin, Leopold Bloom famously lunches on a cheese sandwich and glass of wine in the groundbreaking novel Ulysses. The closest…
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A ‘Moral Pub’ Crawl Through James Joyce’s Dublin
by Mike Karnes The sun casts shadows on the marble bar, its sheen worn dull by 120 years of greasy palms and frothy brew. Denudation through inebriation. A glass tips. …
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Champagne & Sheep: A Poetic Tour of Wales
by Norm Goldstein Sir Thomas More, asking about the medallion with a red dragon worn by Richard Rich, was told it was for Wales. “For Wales?” he responds. “Why, Richard,…
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