New England
Destination: New England Books and Play: The Belle of Amherst by William Luce; The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by Thomas H. Johnson; and a Recipe Autumn makes me think of New England, and New England makes me want to get out [amazonify]0316184136::text::::The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson[/amazonify]. In a former life, I played [...]
PDF We made a trip to Boston last month, and I wondered if I could think of any travel literature about Boston to talk about here. I would definitely have to investigate this mystery. We took a day trip to Martha’s Vineyard and saw the Jaws movie sites, but I have already told you about that [...]
Destination: Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, U.S. Movie: Jaws, from the book by Peter Benchley <A HREF=”http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Ftucontheche-20%2F8014%2F394218b9-4c9b-4eff-bed2-091b1a2c2f06&Operation=NoScript”>Amazon.com Widgets</A>I suggest you hit the play button above to listen as you read…. Bum-Bum-Bum-Bum the beat of the John Williams background music of the movie Jaws (1975) kept going through my head as the van driver edged along the beach [...]
Continue reading about Martha’s Vineyard: Tales of a Movie Shark
(Since Robert Todd Felton’s computer decided it did not want to blog today—died on a train to New York– I’m filling in with more thoughts on Boston, the subject of our prize book. Felton will be back on Monday, and we will have the drawing for his travel book on Boston as scheduled, after midnight [...]
Transcendentalism is fascinating not just for the compelling figures and ideas that made up the movement but also for the glimpse it affords us into the nineteenth century New England from which it sprang. While Transcendentalist thinkers got their inspiration in German philosophy, English poetry, and Far Eastern spirituality, the central ideas of Transcendentalism are [...]
NOTE: THIS CONTEST IS LONG GONE. Exciting things are happening here at the Traveler’s Library. 1. Robert Todd Felton, author of several excellent books which have been discussed here, will be guest writer at A Traveler’s Library next week. He will be talking about the importance of literature for the traveler and about his [...]
My lucky day! I received three books by Robert Todd Felton. I won his books in a raffle supporting Heifer International. In case you missed it, the raffle was conducted late last year by a group of travel bloggers, and Felton, who blogs at Open Page–Open Road, donated books. The new additions to my travel [...]
