My Great New England Train Adventure
By Zeenath Khan Friends and family met my decision to travel to Vermont from Manhattan with various degrees of incredulity. ‘How can you stand the idea of being in a…
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Literary Recipes: Little Women’s Apple Turnovers
By Hannah White “There was a momentary lull, broken by Hannah, who stalked in, laid two hot turnovers on the table, and stalked out again. These turnovers were an institution,…
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Exploring the Literary South: 5 Texas Destinations for the Literary Traveler
By Hannah White I grew up spending summers in the Piney Woods of deep East Texas with my late father’s family. Texas was his home before he moved up north…
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Kayaking with North Country Kayak
By Francis McGovern “One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” — William Shakespeare The Long Pond Day Use Area is about twenty five minutes deep into the White…
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Three Truths for Teaching Writing
By Kelsey Liebenson-Morse The 2020-2021 school year concluded my seventh year of teaching. In many cultures and religions, seven is an important number. In fact, some say it represents physical…
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A Trip to Boston’s Literary District: Visiting Louisa May Alcott’s Beacon Hill Haunts
By Hannah White Boston is a city rich in literary history that many famous writers including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry James, and Henry David Thoreau once called home. But as…
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Call Me By Your Name Literary Travel Guide
By Hannah White One of my favorite summer films of all time, Call Me by Your Name (2017) directed by Luca Guadagnino and based on the 2007 novel of the…
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The Eyes of the Goddess
By Ruth Knafo Setton My first sighting of the goddess, Yemanja, is of a wooden mermaid at the Museu Afro-Brasileira in Pelourinho, the central square of Salvador, the capital…
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Sojourn in Scotland
By Meryl Baer I rest my head on the back of an American Airlines middle seat. Squished on the left by my husband and the right by an unknown man,…
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Gaudi’s dreamlike oddity: Sagrada Familia
By Tejas Yadav The 25€ entry ticket (with audio-guide) was a strong deterrent — that’s more than you would pay to enter the Louvre museum. Pervasive hype was another; I…
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