The Baltics: A Study of Light & Color
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From Cloudberries to Chanterelles
Reading Time: 7 minutes Reflections on Baltic Tourism and the Helsinki Herring Festival Click here to view the Scholarworks Article feature. The Helsinki Herring
Under the Influence: Inara Verzemnieks
Reading Time: 3 minutes He drives because I can’t put down my book, Among the Living and the Dead: A Tale of Exile and Homecoming by Inara Verzemnieks. I realize the ancestral farm she is writing about is not far away… … Read story…Under the Influence: Inara Verzemnieks
Procida: Fantasy Island
Reading Time: 4 minutes Procida at last! Isn’t this what I have come for? Meeting my fantasy friends from the film Il Postino? It
Articles demo
Reading Time: 2 minutes “I like everything about being a writer except writing.” People think it takes gumption to hitchhike; I say it’s a
Why We Travel: The Fall of Rome & Other Empires
Reading Time: 6 minutes While I was climbing Mount Etna, I got a horrible cold. It was so bad, in fact, that I lost
While I was climbing Mt. Aetna…
Reading Time: 4 minutes While I was climbing Mt. Etna… This is a phrase that bears repeating, and so I try to use it
Palermo: Cultural City of 2018
Reading Time: 4 minutes When I don’t know what to do first, I just watch people and pick out someone who looks like they
Ischia: Elena Ferrante Goes to Paradise. And so do I, alas.
Reading Time: 4 minutes The next day, a Monday, arrives like a hangover. It is slightly rainy and gray, and everyone is gone. There
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Gritty Naples: Full of life, but watch your wallet
Reading Time: 4 minutes Naples has welcomed American Sailors since time immemorial (at least since World War II) and it still welcomes everyone, that
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