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pen4hire on February 3rd, 2012

Charles Dickens at 200 Destination: Ohio, 1842 Book: American Notes by Charles Dickens It would be quite unthinkable to let this month pass without paying homage to the 2nd centenary of one of our greatest and most popular writers–Charles Dickens, born February, 1812 (probably February 7). I’ve been dipping into some Dickens’ travel writing to supplement [...]

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pen4hire on November 27th, 2011

Please take a look at my post called “Shawshank Redemption–When Hollywood Comes to Town” at Reel Life With Jane. Lots of pictures from my recent press trip to Mansfield and some info on how the arrival of a Hollywood production crew affects life in a central-Ohio town. Then read below at A Traveler’s Library to [...]

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pen4hire on November 25th, 2011

Destination: Mansfield, Ohio Movie: The Shawshank Redemption (1994) When I hear the term “movie magic,” rather than think of the technology– shadows move around so that we think they are real–I think of the magic as an unknowable X factor that appears for the fortunate few movies. Casablanca had it.  Recently  The King’s Speech had it. [...]

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pen4hire on November 18th, 2011

When I posted on Facebook that I was going to Mansfield, Ohio, and asked people what the number one thing to see in Mansfield would be–I got no replies.  Well, I got one, but it was about Massilon, not Mansfield. High time to drag Mansfield out of that slough of anonymity. Because there ARE reasons [...]

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pen4hire on November 14th, 2011

Don’t miss my guest post about Louis Bromfield and Malabar Farm as pioneering sustainable agriculture at the blog called Attainable-Sustainable. Kris Bordessa writes a lively blog with suggestions for all those little things we can do to give a helping hand to our environment.  Louis Bromfield would have loved her–and vice versa. I am grateful [...]

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pen4hire on November 14th, 2011

Destination: Ohio Book: Pleasant Valley (1945) by Louis Bromfield Louis Bromfield definitely got me thinking.  About the complex man who won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction and made waves along with contemporaries Sinclair Lewis and Hemingway and Fitzgerald, and why Bromfield has sunk out of view. About why he left his global meanderings to return [...]

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pen4hire on October 21st, 2011

I’ve been to a few scary places while traveling–most of them because I got lost and wandered where I should not be. But today I’m thinking about scary places that people plan travel to–in Phoenix, Mansfield Ohio, and New Orleans.

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pen4hire on August 25th, 2010

The Great American Road Trip Destination: Ohio Book: The Thurber Carnival by James Thurber Columbus is a town in which almost anything is likely to happen and in which almost everything has. James Thurber

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pen4hire on August 18th, 2010

The Great American Road Trip Destination: The Great Lakes, Middle America (U.S. and Canada) Book: Sailors, Strippers, Fishermen, Folksingers, Long-Haired Ojibway Painters, and God-Save-the-Queen Monarchists of the GREAT LAKES (2008) by Ted McClelland

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