With books wide open
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- July
- 11
I have some reading plans — hoping to catch up on some really good books starting today. You see, I will be on a glorious vacation to New Hampshire in a White Mountain place more than five hours away with really bad cell phone and sporadic television reception.
There is summer theatre and great clay tennis courts, though.
I might visit Robert Frost’s home. His farmhouse and barn in Derry, N.H. are open to visitors on weekends. In Franconia, which is closer to where I will be staying, there is Frost Place which has really nice views of the White Mountains and it plays host each year to a poet-in-residence. I was just reading about this and other literary sites in “Novel Destinations: Literary Landmarks from Jane Austen’s Bath to Ernest Hemingway’s Key West” by Shannon McKenna Schmidt and Joni Rendon (National Geographic Books, March 2008).
In a future entry, post vacation, I will highlight some literary locales in lower Hudson Valley. But for right now I am packing out of here until July 21.
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A municipal reporter for The Journal News since 1997, 
