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ROLL ON COLUMBIA: ASTORIA AND THE MOUTH OF THE COLUMBIA RIVER

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January 21, 2021

Woody Guthrie’s famous song written in 1941 to extoll the virtues of dam building on the Columbia River and its tributaries is not the subject of this story although the effect of all that damn dam building (some eighty) is one of the causes of the demise of the…

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A Passion for Purses and . . . . Kat Out of the Bag, . . . . . . . . . In Purse-Suit Mysteries: An American In Rome

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June 6, 2020

A Passion for Purses and . . . . Kat Out of the Bag, . . . . . . . . . In Purse-Suit Mysteries: An American In Rome: Katherine : Beauty surrounds my trips to Rome, including on the runways of the fabulous shows of Italian fashions. …

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More on Meteora

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January 5, 2018

For those of you who are interested in knowing more about Meteora and its rock formations and monasteries, here’s a link to a website called Mapping Europe. It contains drone photos that capture some of the wonders of the area.https://www.mappingeurope.com/greece/meteora-monasteries-map.htmThanks to Martha Bakerjian for the find!

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A BONE TO PICK PART II

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April 28, 2012

We had been surprised when our guide, Rivka, launched into a vigorous tirade about the ultra Orthodox as soon as the tour started. She claimed their women did nothing but have babies while the men lived on State handouts while they studied the Talmud in a yeshiva. The most radical denied…

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