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Category Archives: USA
the lie was the weapon and the plot was empty
“Either peace or happiness, let it enfold you. When I was a young man I felt these things were dumb, unsophisticated. I had bad blood, a twisted mind, a precarious upbringing. I was hard as granite, I leered at the … Continue reading
Lost and Found
Uber has released its annual Lost & Found Index with interesting lists of the items that riders left behind. As you might expect, the most commonly forgotten things are obvious: phones, wallets, keys, and backpacks. The most “forgetful” U.S. cities … Continue reading
The Massacre of Innocents
THE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS William Jay Smith (1946) Because I believe in the community of little children Because I have suffered such little children to be slain: I have gazed upon the sunlight, dazed, bewildered, As is a child … Continue reading
The World In Your Hand
Regular readers of Travel Between The Pages are well aware of my fascination with maps and globes. Digital cartography is wonderful, but there is nothing like an old fashioned physical map or globe. I have long been intrigued by pocket … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Europe, History, Maps, Museums, Uncategorized, USA
Tagged Cartography, Globes, Google Maps
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moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out
“For nothing is fixed, forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are … Continue reading
Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.
Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you. Walt Whitman Happy Birthday Walt “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry” is a poem about a man taking the Brooklyn ferry home from Manhattan at the end of a … Continue reading
Posted in Books, History, USA, Writing
Tagged Brooklyn, Manhattan, New York City, Poetry, Walt Whitman
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Test Your Artistic Acumen
If you have been swept up in the Wordle craze, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, has created Artle, an art-guessing game for those who want to test their artistic acumen. Like Wordle, Artle offers up just one puzzle a … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Museums, USA
Tagged games, National Gallery of Art, Painting, Washington D.C
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Banned But Unburnable
To protest widespread book bans in the U.S., Canadian author Margaret Atwood has collaborated with her publishers on a fireproof edition of her most famous—and often banned—novel, The Handmaid’s Tale. The unique issue was produced by Rethink, an independent creative agency, and made in … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Canada, Freedom of Speech, USA, Writing
Tagged book burning, censorship, Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
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Life Is An Open Book
The art of brick sculpture goes back to ancient Babylonia. It has fallen out of favor in modern days, but the work “Life Is An Open Book” by the American sculptor Brad Spenser is a wonderful example of the form. Situated … Continue reading
A Memorial Centennial
Way back in the antedeluvian days of the last century, I spent quite a bit of time in Washington D.C.. So much so that I eventually wrote a travel guidebook for budget travelers to the U.S. capital. During my book … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, History, Tourism, Travel Writing, Uncategorized, USA
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Memorial Day, National Parks, Washington D.C
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