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Sixteen notable writers have created a combined list of places that they believe helped shape and define America, from coastal Oregon and Solvang, California, to Ellis Island and New Hampshire’s Black Heritage Trail. The resulting collection of mini-essays, including contributions from memoirist Cheryl Strayed, novelist Jodi Picoult, humorist David Sedaris and activist Gloria Steinem, was organized by Frommer’s, the travel guidebook company. The collection can be read for free online. The ...

Beth J. Harpaz FILE - Tourists walk around the grounds at Ellis Island, on April 29, 2015, in New York. The location is featured in a collection of mini-essays by American writers published online by the Frommers guidebook company about places they believe helped shape and define America. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File) December 23, 2020 - 8:03 AM Sixteen notable writers have created a combined list of places that they believe helped shape and define America, from co...

.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... Sixteen notable writers have created a combined list of places that they believe helped shape and define America, from coastal Oregon and Solvang, California, to Ellis Island and New Hampshire’s Black Heritage Trail. The resulting collection of mini-essays, including contributions from memoirist Ch...

Why we need more DIY government. Study for The House of Representatives, by Samuel F.B. Morse, c. 1821. Smithsonian American Art Museum, museum purchase through a grant from the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, 1978. It takes a lot of gall to represent anyone else, even in so humble a thing as a school board, much less in the U.S. House, and less still in our U.S. Senate, with all its gaseous grandees. In the now plutocratic United States, once in theory so free of caste, it’s still ...

Egan: Living through the darkest day Timothy Egan Every five years or so I try to return to land’s end, the continent’s edge, where the Columbia River empties into the Pacific Ocean — the final heave of the River of the West. I prefer to go during winter solstice, the long night of the soul in the Northern Hemisphere. Off Cape Disappointment you look out at swells of 20 feet and struggle to walk in the face of a resolute rain and wind gusts that slap you silly. It’s exhilarating. This y...

30:12 Click play to hear Timothy Egan describe being a lapsed Catholic, embarking on a pilgrimage and a newfound belief in miracles. He sets out along the Via Francigena, once the major medieval trail leading the devout to Rome, and travels overland via the small mountain towns of France, Switzerland and Italy, accompanied by a quirky cast of fellow pilgrims.  The NYTimes review said of the book:  …a deeply-researched, captivating journey through the rich history of Christianity and the win...

Learn about Victorian Christmas carols with Elmhurst History Museum   Posted12/15/2020 1:07 PM The Elmhurst History Museum is hosting an online lecture on "Victorian Christmas Carols" by Alisa Clapp-Itnyre, Ph.D. and professor of English at Indiana University East. The lecture is available on Elmhurst Historys YouTube channel through Jan. 4. Clapp-Itnyre will explore Victorian Christmas carols, many still popular today.   Clapp-Itnyre is an author and scholar of music and literature...

Pundits who distanced themselves from or left the republican party. many saying the party is not recognizable. timothy egan is a columnist in the new york times and the founding fathers would gag at todays republicans. republicans would not approve of the republican and would prefer a merging of church and state. we are joined by david jogglly d himself a former republican of the state of florida. let me start with what you read this week and how do you feel about the party today? >> justin shou...

Trade deals with china, japan, mexico -- i mean mexico is killing us. mexico is killing us in trade. >> how are they killing us? the peso is worth less today than it was five years ago. >> so they went on about the peso. on sunday, when most of that interview aired on "meet the press," two op-ed pieces in the "new york times" made psychiatric references to donald trump, timothy egans column said normal politics cant explain that. for that you need freud. trump fits the classic description of nar...

The peso is worth less today than it was five years ago. >> so they went on about the peso. on sunday, when most of that interview aired on "meet the press," two op-ed pieces in the "new york times" made psychiatric references to donald trump, timothy egans column said normal politics cant explain that. for that you need freud. trump fits the classic description of narcissistic personality disorder. in her column, maureen dowd included this in her interview with trump. i tell trump that he has t...