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Virginia: Orange, Gordonsville, and Charlottesville, Dec. 14-15, 2014
“A Gordonsville chicken has six legs” That is the kind of annoying crazy statement one hears from one’s parents as a teenager. It is now memorable, and has long stuck in my mind. It actually inspired me to take a bike ride around the small town of Gordonsville, on two unseasonably warm and bright December…
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Hilton Head Island SC, Nov. 29-30, 2014
Why, you may ask, did I choose to go to this place? Because I had never been there. It did not seem like the kind of place that I would like; I predicted a place filled with gated communities and golf courses. Which, it pretty much turned out to be. That,…
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Po River Valley, Italy; Oct 26 – Nov. 3, 2014
On a clear day in downtown Milan you can see the Alps rising in the distance. Thirty miles north of Milan at Malpensa Airport majestic mountains are even closer, they rise as a backdrop. Flying in and out of Malpensa, you can see glaciers in these craggy peaks. Yet much of the…
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A couple modernist buildings in Norfolk; 10/12/2014
I have tried to convince my brother Alex that his next book should be a history of Norfolk’s willful self-destruction during the fifties and sixties, when federal redevelopment money paid to tear down much of the older part of the city. (“slum clearance”) And it was not a piecemeal approach; entire neighborhoods vanished, intended…
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