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Tolkien in Italy

When we were in Rome for a few days last week, I decided to check out “Tolkien: Man, Professor, Author,” a new exhibition at...

Essence of Trieste

John and I spent three months in Trieste last year, with the goal of finally becoming reasonably proficient in Italian. The teachers at Piccola...

Green-Wood Cemetery

"By the 1860s, only Niagara Falls was drawing more visitors annually than Green-Wood. Twenty years before Central Park, the cemetery was effectively New York's...

Me and You and SARS-CoV-2: A Year in Review

Historians will look back at 2020 with the same fascination as arborists looking at one of those tree-ring anomalies that signal something cataclysmic—a wildfire,...