Reading and Roaming
THANKSGIVING IN NORTH CAROLINA We spent Thanksgiving week in North Carolina. I was pleased to see burnished fall colors on the trees as we landed at RDU. That’s something I miss about living in Florida. But it was a cold week, and this Florida wimp wore many layers to stay warm, even on the afternoon we explored …
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RECENT READING BOOKS SET IN MAINE Lily King is an award-winning novelist who happens to live in Portland, Maine. With that credential, she has written an engaging piece “Reading Your Way Through Maine” for the New York Times series focusing on literature from specific locales. Amongst her list of twenty titles, I was pleased to see familiar ones: …
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Kalispell A year or so ago, I’d never heard of Kalispell, Montana, much less known how to spell it. It’s in the northwestern part of the state and is the town in which Glacier Park International Airport is located. Their code is FCA (totally unintuitive!) The airport is small, but recently expanded, rustic in feel, and bustling …
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TREES IN ART Van Gogh’s Cypresses (Metropolitan Museum of Art) The last exhibit we visited in Manhattan this month was the small, but fascinating, collection of Van Gogh’s Cypresses. Probably Van Gogh’s most famous painting is The Starry Night. When we saw it here, we were made aware of the tall dark cypress trees on the left. Something I hadn’t paid …
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