New England
Pet Travel Book Club Destination: New Hampshire Book: Following Atticus: Eight Peaks, One Little Dog, and an Extraordinary Friendship (September 2011) by Tom Ryan CONTEST IS CLOSED. NOTE: This is the continuing book club run by Edie Jarolim of Will My Dog Hate me. Win a signed copy of Following Atticus by commenting here, OR at [...]
Destination: New England Books and Play: The Belle of Amherst by William Luce; The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by Thomas H. Johnson; and a Recipe
The Great American Road Trip Destination: New Hampshire Book: The Good, Good Pig:The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood, by Sy Montgomery. Where would we be without librarians?
Destination: Concord, Massachusetts Site: Henry David Thoreau’s Home “What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?“
Great American Road Trip: Massachusetts Destination: Cape Ann, Massachusetts Book: Dogtown: Death and Enchantment in a New England Ghost Town (2009) by Elyssa East Here we are in a wild, wooded 3,000 acre area next door to Gloucester MA. It may come as a surprise that we are not visiting Gloucester, a tourist mecca and [...]
Nathanial Philbrick’s book Mayflower deepens our understanding of the Pilgrim settlers.
Continue reading about The Mayflower: Pilgrims Voyage to New England Retold
Destination: New England Books and Play: The Belle of Amherst by William Luce; The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by Thomas H. Johnson; and a Recipe Autumn makes me think of New England, and New England makes me want to get out [amazonify]0316184136::text::::The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson[/amazonify]. In a former life, I played [...]
(Since Robert Todd Felton’s computer decided it did not want to blog today—died on a train to New York– I’m filling in with more thoughts on Boston, the subject of our prize book. Felton will be back on Monday, and we will have the drawing for his travel book on Boston as scheduled, after midnight [...]
