I don’t know how far I’ve gone on my walk from my hotel to the Vancouver Convention Centre, through rush-hour traffic, through nervousness that I’m late for an interview, I’m late for conference registration, I’m not 100-percent entirely sure I’m even walking in the right direction, when I start to notice the eagles. New York…
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Manhattan Hobbyhorse
I’m not sure that Jeff Koons’s Split-Rocker at Rockefeller Center in New York City works quite as well as Puppy did, but it’s fun to contemplate the more recent work over watermelon and tomato salad at Rock Center Café. I look forward to seeing Play-Doh at the Whitney (through Oct. 19, 2014). —Lori Tripoli
7/11/1779: Feeling Bedford Burn
It’s hard to envision bucolic Bedford, N.Y. as a war zone, but it was one during the Revolutionary War. British forces traveled up Guard Hill Road and then burned all but one of the houses in the village 235 years ago today. How often I drive on Guard Hill and think only fleetingly about its…
Finding the American Revolution in Sleepy Hollow
On a visit to the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, the Bashful Adventurer finds markers about the American Revolution.
Newport: Trinity Church, Where Were You in the Revolution?
Visiting Trinity Church in Newport, RI, the Bashful Adventurer can’t help but wonder how religion and politics intertwined during the American Revolution.
Watch with a Tourist’s Eyes
How many times do I visit Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, N.Y. before noticing a plaque about George Washington’s meetup with Comte de Rochambeau, a French general sent to help with the Revolutionary War? I volunteer at the hospital for years; I visit friends and relatives there over a period of decades, but it…
Where We Should All Be on July 4th
In between barbeques and fireworks on Independence Day, travelers might take a few minutes to visit a cemetery containing Revolutionary War dead and give a bit of thanks. Imagine taking on a super power in a place where there were no gunpowder manufacturers—and winning. For those with the courage to serve, thank you. —Lori Tripoli…
Salem, Where Were You during the Revolution?
One of the great joys of traveling to places that we visit to see other things is learning about their other histories, those that we are not necessarily there to see. I am in Salem, Mass. to learn about witches and evidence and about a repressive society and what teenage girls will do when there’s…
Old Dutch Church, Where Were You during the Revolution?
The Bashful Adventurer is curious about the role of the Old Dutch Church in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y. during the American Revolution.
Gertrude Three Ways
I first meet Gertrude Stein during my Pablo Picasso phase, and my Hemingway phase, and my F. Scott Fitzgerald phase and then I come across her in Bryant Park in New York and I see her resting at Père-Lachaise in Paris and I would swear I see her in a little park in Mallory Square…