Just a bit of name dropping ...
and I shall have to take more photos
at Writers' Festivals
... and get Alphie to take pictures of me
instead of visa versa
... ahh, well, there's always next time!
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November 2012
Concord, Massachusetts, USA
The Old Manse
~ Home of Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ and then home of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Orchard House
~ Home of Louisa May Alcott & Branson Alcott
~ where she wrote and set Little Women
and Bronson Alcott's Concord School of Philosphy
The Wayside
Concord, Massachusetts, USA
~ Home of the Alcotts
and then the Hawthornes
Home of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Concord, Massachusetts, USA
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Walden Pond
Concord, Massachusetts, USA
~ where Thoreau wrote of his experiences in
Walden, or Life In The Woods
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Concord, Massachusetts, USA
Author's Ridge graves of
Thoreau, Hawthorne, Alcotts, Emerson
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Mark Twain's House
Mark Twain's House
Hartford, Connecticut, USA
where he wrote ~ Huckleberry Finn,
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Prince and The Pauper
& A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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Harriet Beecher Stowe's House
Hartford Connecticut
~ Twain's next door neighbour
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Stone House
Shaftsbury, Vermont, USA
~ home of Robert Frost where he wrote
Stopping By The Woods On A Snowy Evening
Grave of Robert Frost
Bennington, Vermont, USA
~ I had a lovers quarrel with the world
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Arrowhead
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, USA
~ home of Herman Melville
where he wrote Moby Dick
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October 2012
The Great Lost Bear &
The Inn At St John
Portland, Maine USA
~ haunts of Charlie Parker from the John Connolly crime novels
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Rachel Carson Wildlife Refuge
Wells, Maine, USA
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April 2011
Bellingen, NSW, AU
~ Bellingen Readers & Writers Festival featuring
Michael Robotham, Jon Bauer, Chris Wormersley
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June 2011
Daintree, Queensland, AU
Alpheus Williams, writer in residence
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August 2010
San Francisco, CA, USA
John's Bar & Grill
~ Dashiell Hammett's drinking hole
~ A "Literary Landmark"
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City Lights Booksellers
~ the Beat's legacy of insurgent thinking
~ A "Literary Landmark"
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August 2010
Byron Bay, NSW, AU
Writers Festival
~ cooking class with Luke Nguyen
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June 2010
Coffs Harbour, NSW, AU
~ Alphie and Michael Robotham
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May 2010
Sydney, NSW, AU
~ Alphie with John Connolly
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October 2006
Rockland, Maryland, USA
Grave of F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald
~ So we beat on, boats against the current,
borne back ceaselessly into the past
borne back ceaselessly into the past
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