In looking back through my pictures, I find that I am fascinated by the people who make things. I often snap the hands of craftsmen and women–no matter what their craft may be. Here are three up close and personal from Bayeux France, Chattanooga Tennessee, and Mansfield Ohio. This post is part of Travel [...]
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Jennifer Close–mom, educator, writer, traveler– who writes Two Kids and a Map, has agreed to write about family travel at least once a month for A Traveler’s Library. Jennifer is the only one of the new contributors I did not know when we started our adventure, but she was recommended by a family travel writer [...]
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Pet Travel Thursday Destination: The American Road Trip Book: Travels With Charley, In Search of America by John Steinbeck By Edie Jarolim Woe to the author who becomes a classic, especially one who has been awarded a Nobel Prize for Literature. The uninitiated reader — or the one who only knows the books assigned in [...]
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Wednesday Matinee Destination: Corsica Movie: Queen to Play by Jane Boursaw I knew right away I’d like Queen to Play, a French film set on the gorgeous island of Corsica. You geography buffs will know immediately where that is, but I had to look it up. Corsica is a mountainous piece of land in the [...]
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Today we get to know a bit more about our Culture Travel Tuesday contributor, Dr. Jessie Voigts. Regular readers of A Traveler’s Library are familiar with Jessie, since she has been an almost monthly contributor for many moons. She has been bringing us synopses of interviews with authors from her wonderfully useful website Wandering Educators. [...]
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We’re kicking off this month’s Contributor’s week by interviewing my friend Kerry Dexter. She’s your friend, too, if you read A Traveler’s Library Great American Road Trip last year, because she provided the musical accompaniment for each and every place we visited. I enjoyed that partnership with Kerry so much and also am always delighted [...]
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