Reflections of O’Neill

by Charlie Canning
In 1987, I got a job as a tour guide at the Eugene O’Neill National Historic Site in Danville, California. Tao House was my fourth stop with the Park Service. I’d started at the Adams National Historic Site in Quincy, Massachusetts, not five miles from where I was born. Then it was Saint-Gaudens in New Hampshire and the Carl Sandburg Home in Flat Rock, North Carolina. At each place, there was something beyond the buildings and the grounds, the furnishings and the artwork that would speak to you if it were quiet and you listened carefully enough. At the Adams site, it was JQA...

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