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Ferry-hopping up Alaska's panhandle
| Posted on: Thursday, July 29, 2010 |
Category: Cultures |
Buckwheat, who earned his nickname in seventh grade, drove his pick-up alongside the wide, ankle-deep Skagway River then crossed railroad tracks to reach the Gold Rush Cemetery. Wooden grave markers were dotted among birch and cottonwood trees: Chadwick Biggs, Hasel Achison, Unknown - plenty of Unknowns.
Guernsey's forgotten novel
| Posted on: Saturday, July 17, 2010 |
Category: Writers |
If you hear an American accent on the Channel Island of Guernsey this summer, the chances are it will belong to someone who has read a certain novel that reading groups in the US have gone crazy for in the last couple of years.
Playing hookey with Tom and Huck
| Posted on: Sunday, April 18, 2010 |
Category: Writers |
Big storm over the Mississippi River. Right-thinking folks is indoors, minding their secret hoard of lickrish pieces and pinch-bug beetles, but we ain't no right-thinking folks. 'Let's go to the cemetery and cure some warts!' says the juvenile pariah sitting across from me.
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