So Sympathetic Americans sent funds to Bo Shmo which he used to build one huge neo-realist institution in the Mountains. Wagon trains of neo-social realist composers writers and painters could be seen winding up its path. Ronald Sukenick seems almost neo-realist in contrast, but again in such...
Laden with hope and burdened with what few belongings they had, the immigrants embarked on a voyage that would forever shape their destinies and leave an indelible mark on history. Little did they know of the challenges that awaited them - the losses, the injustices, the suffering. Most had ...
When I was 10 years old, our family loaded into a Ford Fairlane station wagon and drove across country to southern Colorado for a reunion with my mother’s family. My mom had grown up in the small town of Pagosa Springs. I remember vividly horseback rides in the shadows of the jagged ...
“Where did you leave it? ”“In my bag. ” “Where is your bag, then? ”“Oh, I ’ve remembered! I left it on my seat. It must be in the car. Go and get it back. ” Bad l 54 ! Mr Smith didn ’t know where the key to the garage was. His wife told him it was i...
Although Kansas governor Thomas A. Osborn pledged to provide relief to needy citizens, angry and discouraged pioneers fled Kansas by the hundreds in trains and by covered wagon. “In God we trusted; in Kansas we busted,” was a popular slogan painted on the sides of the wagons headed back ...
Leave a comment Posted inEurope,Food,International Travel,Italy,Lifeand taggedAgriculture,Expo,Expo Milano,Food,international. Bookmark thepermalink. Venezia, Italia Posted onMay 25, 2016bywesblueyes Being a dumb American, I did not know Venice was actually Venezia until I started booking my reser...
Leave a reply Sometimes a beard is only…a beard. Last week, when Deadspin first broke the story that Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o’s dead girlfriend had never existed, I must confess that my first thought, and the first thought of the friend who alerted me to the story, was: ...
Gielgud and ‘B-P’ decide to leave the path and strike off to one side where the ground appears to slope downwards. “It was heart-breaking work, every rise seemed to promise a valley on the other side, but we only topped it to find an ordinary dry baked grass vlei behind....
You could also see that the older larger bison ruled, often causing the younger smaller ones to leave as they saw the large ones coming. We circled on back to the visitors center where we got involved in conversation with other travelers. One was from northern Virginia and was just making ...
Tips and observations from traveling by train in Germany * Lots of trains in Germany don’t require a reservation fee, although you’ll fine exceptions. * It might happen that one wagon of the train goes to your destination, but the others separate from the train at some point of the rou...