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In The Field: Maximon
We skimmed the surface of Lake Atitlan, moving so fast that our hull didn’t seem to sink in. I was in a small boat with a big motor, flying across the lake from Panajachel, Guatemala. The kid driving...
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Expats: Once Upon a Time
For the Germans, it was like going to a party, giving a present to the hostess and then being asked to leave. In the late 1700s, Catherine the Great, also of German heritage, invited them to settle in...
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Journeys: The Ben Lomond Dump Diver
NPR is telling me that the Coho salmon may go extinct. They are waiting, stranded in the ocean, unable to jump the many sand banks that block their way up the rivers and streams of Northern California...
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Shelter: Silken Cells of Santa Catalina
There has always been something rarefied about the air among these convent passages, something more than the crispness lent by the altitude of 7,000 feet. For nearly four centuries, while the...
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Outlaws: Marlboros and Montenegro
Photo by Raymond Zoller. It takes about two hours by speedboat to cross the aquamarine Adriatic from the port city of Bar in Montenegro to the coastal city of Bari in Italy, shorter if your speedboat...
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In The Field: Man’s First Orchard
Photo by Mark Fischer. In the valley of the River Jordan at the dawn of civilization — a thousand years before the first domestication of grain and five millennia before grapes, olives, and dates were...
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The Flaneur: Down & Out at the Jaipur Literature Festival – Part One
1/16/2013 – 02:19 – Jammu-Ajmer Express Six Punjabis are jostling and talking in the steel bunk racks above as this train clanks and rattles across Haryana south towards Rajasthan. I am lying on the...
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Shanghai’s Chinatown
Eddie Bracken Please keep to the right. I’m walking on the right. I’m trying to stay out of your way. Why are you veering into my path, brushing or even bumping my shoulder? There’s plenty of room...
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In the Shade of the Almond Tree
Author’s Note: Two major obstacles to happiness remain constant throughout the history of Haitian society: social and economic injustice, and totalitarian tendencies. Poverty can be as cruel as...
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Culev Diary
In 2010, American artist Swoon co-founded Konbit Shelter to bring sustainable home construction to Haiti following the catastrophic 7.0 earthquake that shook the country earlier that year. She and a...
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India
Mark Adams is a cartographer-geographer with the National Park Service who paints and makes videos on Cape Cod. He travels for his health and wellbeing and believes the sketch-journal is an antidote...
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Into the Hazelwood
Fried chicken, boiled potatoes, 1950s Appalachia, shotguns, tombstones, London, St. Paul’s, Galway, easyHotel, Yeats, Heathrow, Ireland & Elizabeth Arden Red perfume. I watched the sycamore tree...
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