Category Archives: Places to See List
In the Footsteps of Claudia and Jamie
Twelve-year-old Claudia Kincaid is fed up with her family, so she enlists her little brother Jamie to run away with her to the Metropolitan Musuem of Art in New York where the two sleep in one of the beds on … Continue reading
Go Big or Go Home
I ‘m excited to have my first guest blogger! Traci Suppa of Go Big or Go Home shares my affinity the superlative places and very big things that I put on my 101 Places You Gotta See Before You’re 12! … Continue reading
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Remembering Sadako
August 6 marks the 65th anniversary of the destruction of Hiroshima by the atomic bomb. On that day, two-year-old Sadako Sasaki and her family survived, but 10 years later she was diagnosed with terminal leukemia due to exposure to radiation. … Continue reading
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Wanderous Strange
I have a thing for eccentrics, outsiders, oddballs, etc. There’s something very brave about taking your own peculiar vision of the world and putting it out there for all to see. I included folk art environments in 101 Places You … Continue reading
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Firefly Season
The season’s first firefly just blinked through our backyard last night, announcing the start of that brief, magical time of the year when the kids race around the yard in the twilight each night in pursuit of those little blinks … Continue reading
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Opportunities for (Old) Growth
One thing can be said for all those early American loggers: they were thorough. From 950 million acres of virgin forests that stretched from the east coast to the Mississippi when the first Europeans arrived, they managed to do away … Continue reading
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The Wanderlists Observer: Tree Tunnels
When we come to a place in the road where the trees on either side lock arms over our heads, we call it a tree tunnel. They are a rare and wonderful occurrence, and we’ve even gone out of our … Continue reading
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Museums without Walls
I still remember the exact moment when I realized our gallery-opening days were over, or at least on hiatus for a decade or so. Miss M was about two and a half and we were at an opening featuring work … Continue reading
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