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Although the Salzburg Marionette Theater is anything but scary, you’ll have to admit that the witch from Hansel and Gretel is a little scary. I recently learned, however, that the way to keep witches away is to put a pile of corn near you doorway. When a witch flies over corn, she is obliged to [...]
PDF Destination: Santa Fe Indian Market Held the third weekend in August every year, the Santa Fe Indian Market celebrated its 90th birthday in 2011. Over at the Tahoma Blog, I wrote about Geronima Cruz Montoya, an artist who was six years old when the Market started, grew up to be an artist and teacher, and [...]
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Books for Troubled Times in the Arab World Destination: Iran (Persia, 12th Century) Book: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, translated by Edward Fitzgerald (1917) The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam*, a rather slim book with its ivory slip cover and front embossed with green, red and gold twining roses held an honored position in my parent’s living [...]
NOTICE: I will give this collection (which is priced at $45.00) to one reader chosen at random from those who comment on this post. American Resident, Over 18. (By Friday April Destination: Paris, France Book: Paris from the Heart: Ultimate Walking Tours to Fun, Fashion and Freedom (November 2010) by Jan Dolphin Print [...]
SALUTE TO MUSEUMS Check the credit cards in your wallet. If you happen to have any card from Bank of America, it is your ticket to a museum somewhere in the United States. Their Museums on Us® program includes 150 museums offering free admission the first full weekend of a month. The next opportunities are April [...]
Destination: Kazakhstan Book: Apples Are From Kazakhstan, The Land That Disappeared by Christoher Robbins (Originally published in 2008, NEW release in paperback, September 2010) The title sounds like a gross exaggeration. Apples Are from Kazakhstan: The Land that Disappeared. And the book is packed with outrageous statements like that. Print PDF
Destination: Rome, Italy Book: The Last Judgment: Michelangelo and the Death of the Renaissance by James A. Connor (NEW Paperback Edition August, 2010 from Palgrave MacMillan) Like Michelangelo and The Pope’s Ceiling by Ross King, this book concentrates on one major work of the maestro. Unlike King’s book, The Last Judgment by James A. (Jim) [...]
Continuation of Rushed Road Trip, about a quick trip from Arizona to California. Good friend Susan Lanier Graham writes about WOW moments at Wander with Wonder. Here’s what made us go WOW! on this short road trip. Just keep your eyes open, and you will find it too. (A puzzle, a view, a movie star, [...]
Great American Road Trip Destination: Buffalo, New York Book: City on the Edge by Mark Goldman My great aunt Maude Bartlett lived in Buffalo with her husband, dearCarlos. She always referred to him as though his name had three syllables. I never visited Aunt Maude in Buffalo, and Carlos died before I was born. Print [...]
