The Maltese Falcon
by Mark Richardson I should start by saying that I am not predisposed to pulling off heists in broad daylight (or at night, for that matter). But there the black…
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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Struggle and Romance with Salem
by Nancy Brewka Clark Nathaniel Hawthorne called himself a writer of romances or allegorical tales of times long past with supernatural overtones. Yet many of the stories he wrote came…
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Norman Rockwell’s Cover Story
by Joe Curreri Norman Rockwell produced 4,000 works during his lifetime, yet his popularity is based on the covers he produced for The Saturday Evening Post, published by the Curtis…
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Michelangelo, The Flower of Florence
by David Sclar The city of Florence, Italy, is the unmistakable home of the great painter, architect, and sculptor, Michelangelo Buonarroti, known today simply as Michelangelo. The second of five…
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Rest Thomas Wolfe – Thomas Wolfe’s Grave
Thomas Wolfe was stricken with an influenza while traveling in the Pacific Northwest. Wolfe told his doctors he believed that he became sick while on a July 4th cruise to Vancouver on the Canadian Pacific steamship, Princess Kathleen. On the ship, he shared a drink of whisky with a shivering man, whom he would later call “a poor shivering wretch.” The next day he became very sick and decided to make his way back to Seattle.
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Thomas Wolfe’s Dixieland, Thomas Wolfe’s Old Kentucky Home
by Francis McGovern The Old Kentucky Home, known as “Dixieland” in the novel Look Homeward Angel by Thomas Wolfe, is located at 48 Spruce Street in downtown Asheville. The novel…
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Footprints in Cloutierville
by Linda McGovern If you didn’t know Kate Chopin had lived there for a time, you might never have heard of or driven through Cloutierville with a second glance. Located…
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Sunset Grand Isle, LA, A visit to the setting of The Awakening
by Linda McGovern Grand Isle, a three hour drive south of New Orleans, is on the outermost shore of Louisiana. The drive takes quite some time since the winding narrow…
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A Good Writer Is Hard To Find: The Search For Flannery O’Connor
by Linda McGovern To try and get more from a writer than what you see on the page, depends on the writer and their ability to make you see, and…
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John Millinton Synge and the Aran Isles
by Gary Lehmann John Millington Synge, later author of The Playboy of the Western World, started out writing competent but prosaic works. Then he met with W.B. Yeats, who told him…
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