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Originally published in 1915, this is a fictionalised tale of the true account of the testimonials of Isobel Gowdie, of course these testimonials may indeed have been fictionalised by Gowdie herself in the first place; so we have multiple layers of fiction and truth to pick through. To tell...
While Bar Harbor is known as a hub for tourism in the warmer months, the town also houses thousands of year-round residents. It can be difficult for tourism towns to tamper crime, but Bar Harbor has had a pair of banner years recently. Bar Harbor dropped its violent crime per 1,000 re...
Jikininki by Lafcadio Hearn – Japan (1904) A priest grows weary in his travels, and is directed to a village by a man who could not help him. The villagers let him sleep there, but would not remain themselves, as a death had just occurred, and they all feared what would happen in ...
Leave a place where, if I did get it, I could at least afford the healthcare, and fly to America where the healthcare costs would break me? Hell no! I’m staying right here, thank you very much. The Staying Fortunately, Cuenca is a great place to get stuck in. A view from ...
Yep, this holiday has stages and we who are older live in the very best stage of all. Now it’s all turkey, no oven, no making of pies, no lumping of gravies. Which is how we started out as kids. No responsibility for the holiday. Moms and aunts did the manual labor. I even ...
I don’t have an immense aversion to happiness yet, riding the wave of cherophobia, my thoughts this season vacillate between thinking that being happy means something bad will happen and that being happy is bad for everyone. Perhaps it’s the past disappointments in life, i.e., broken pr...
Fortunately, Trudeau even- tually found a fiddle teacher in Laurel Martin, who helped her to develop her childhood inter- est for Irish traditional music into a full-fledged passion. But just when Trudeau thought things with Martin couldn't get any better, they did. Last year, Trudeau and ...
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