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Ninety minutes in New Orleans Treme and Mid-City 7/10/11
In almost any American city, one learns very quickly that there are places you do not go. There are streets you do not cross, neighborhoods you do not enter. When we lived in New Orleans in the eighties, we knew that when in the French Quarter, you did not cross Rampart Street. That was a…
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York / Harrisburg / Hershey PA, 6/11-12, 2011
General Lee and I have something in common; we both crossed the Mason-Dixon line in search of conquering the closest Yankee turf. Gettysburg and Antietam are actually both not very far from here. For here is the closest place to Virginia and North Carolina where you really feel you have left home, that the surroundings feel…
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Newport News / Hampton VA 6/5/2011
I was all prepared to say that Newport News had the ugliest most abandoned looking downtown area that I have ever seen. However, upon further study, I now know that it never was a true downtown. The downtown was and is a company town. Newport News was just a small fishing village when entrepeneurs in the late…
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Jacksonville FL, 5/14-15, 2011
When arriving Jacksonville by overnight train from Raleigh, one intensely experiences the physical differences between Piedmont North Carolina and North Florida. I woke up at 6:00 AM gliding through a dreamy foggy world of Spanish moss and swamps. Passing through Jessup, Georgia in the early morning fog, wooden houses with tropical architecture were scattered around the town center. By the time the…
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