Visiting The National Steinbeck Center
The National Steinbeck Center is located at One Main Street in Salinas, California. The Center incorporates Steinbeck's work into tactile, interactive…
Tag: American Authors
Henry Miller and The Dance of Life
The art of living is based on rhythm - on give and take, ebb and flow, light and dark, life and death. By acceptance of all the aspects of life, good …
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…
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…
Hemingway in Key West
In the mid-19th century in Key West, the cigar industry transformed the island into the thirteenth largest port in the country. To get an education an…
The Sun Also Sets: A Visit to Hemingway’s Grave and Memorial
It's quiet here at Hemingway's Grave. Sun Valley is filled with late afternoon light and there is a chill in the air. A new red truck drives into the …