William Shakespeare’s Globe Theater
A crowd of twentieth century "groundlings" stands in the open yard of the new Globe Theatre in Bankside, London. We've paid five pounds approximately…
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A Wasteland of Contradictions: The California Dreams of Nathanael West
By Tim Tejani El Centro, California lies sixty miles inside the Arizona border in Imperial County. This formidably-named milieu can pass all but unnoticed astride…
The Outermost House, Henry Beston’s Cape Cod
When taking the initial walk down the path to Coast Guard Beach in Eastham, MA, one might not have the notion that a deeper understanding of the great…
Marjory Stoneham Douglas
Marjory Stoneman Douglas became known during her lifetime, all one hundred eight years of it, as the Everglades’ patron saint, primarily because of her 1947…
Emily Dickinson’s Homestead
As a junior in high school, studying American Literature for the first time, I claimed Emily Dickinson as my poet. I felt as though I alone were given…
Denmark’s Karen Blixen Museum
As you walk through her peaceful gardens and adjoining forest land, the tourist tape plays a piece of her favourite music: Max Bruch's hauntingly beau…
Joaquin Miller, The Poet of the Sierras
Called the "Poet of the Sierras" and the "Byron of the Rockies," Cincinnatus Hiner Miller alias Joaquin Miller was also termed a "poseur" and a "farce…
James Joyce A Portrait of The Artist in Trieste
Trieste, Italy, is on the uneasy border where northern Italy flares out to touch Yugoslavia, with Austria hanging just above it like a storm cloud. It…
Rokeby and The Robinson Family
Rokeby in Ferrisburgh, Vermont, is first on my list for high quality, fascinating small house museums in my state for a number of reasons. It's near m…
Fitzgerald, Hemingway And The Sun Also Rises
"Dear Charley - You wanted to know the decision on Hemingway: We took it, - with misgiving. There was of course a great [question]. I simply thought i…