Arts & Culture

Fall 2023
Barbara Marrett

Sailing Aboard Riverboat Discovery: Experiencing Native Culture

I am looking out from the bow of the sternwheeler Riverboat Discovery III as we glide up the calm, khaki-green Chena River. It is mid-May, 70-degrees with a blue sky and puffy cumulus clouds; I peel off unnecessary layers while listening to our guide’s lively narration on the natural history

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Winter 2022 - The Holiday Issue
Karen LeBlanc

Christmas Crafts from the Village of Lauscha

The age-old art of handmade, glass-blown, and paper mache Christmas ornaments lives on in the village of Lauscha, in Germany’s ancient Thuringian Forest. One of my favorite Christmas memories as a child was unspooling the tissue paper-wrapped silvered Christmas ornaments compartmentalized in cardboard boxes. The entire sensory experience still stirs

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Spring 2020
Steve Tambosso

Burning Man

It is Tuesday August 23rd, 2016 and I have been excitedly driving westward toward Nevada for two days.  I parked for the night just off I-80 in “somewhere” Nebraska.

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Winter 2018 Issue
Ann Fisher

A Tale of Two Davids

In the Davids of Donatello and Michelangelo lie the stories of the public and the private Florence. This was true in the 16th century, and it is still true more than 500 years later. 

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Pacific Rim
Carla Marie Rupp

Guam Glories in Welcoming Visitors

  [dropcap]G[/dropcap]uam offers an exciting, warm, vibrant island paradise experience, with great scuba diving and snorkeling, golf, beach-combing, wonderful shopping with better prices (especially with its duty free status and local markets) and spectacular sight-seeing and landmarks. It’s exotic in its own way, yet American.   It’s “where America’s day begins!”

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Louisiana Special
Bennett Root, Jr.

The Other Easy: North Louisiana’s Art Community

[dropcap]W[/dropcap]e’d heard about the cultural delights of Northern Louisiana—engaging art, accessible artistic communities, great food and elemental American music–but we’d never taken time to visit. So when New Orleans’ restaurants and hotel rooms were jammed and priced beyond our means during the first few days of our scheduled vacation, we

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