The Other Things Mabel Ringling and Ca’ d’Zan, the house that love built 30 May 20171 Jun 2017 SARASOTA, Fla. “I’m a little bit obsessed with Mabel,” confessed Alice Murphy, without a shadow of shame. In her capacity as PR manager at the John and Mabel Ringling Museum…
Dirty weekend… On the banks of Lake Champlain, the scars of floods and fires 12 Sep 201624 Sep 2016 PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. Lakeside Apartments was already drowning. Hurricane Irene just held it under a minute to finish the job. The brown, concrete complex on the edge of Plattsburgh was built…
Dirty weekend… The not-quite ghost town of Venosta, Quebec 21 Aug 20165 Sep 2016 VENOSTA, Que. We were inspired to spend a weekend in the municipality of Low when an opinion piece on the importance of saving Quebec’s ghost towns came across my desk.…
Summer Walking the abandoned rail bridge of North Anson 1 Aug 201616 Aug 2016 NORTH ANSON, Maine Sometimes you have to put off spontaneity. Like the time I rounded a corner and there was the most amazing rocky river and around the next bend…
Summer The puzzling house on Beatons Bluff 17 Jul 201623 Jul 2016 BEATONS BLUFF When I was a little girl, my Barbies’ Dreamhouse was made of shoeboxes and toilet-paper rolls held together with Scotch tape. On the edge of Nova Scotia, our…
The Other Things The Bessborough Hotel and the man in the grey suit 11 Nov 201517 Nov 2015 SASKATOON — There is a man in a grey suit who smiles freely and greets guests on the banquet level some late evenings. I haven’t had the pleasure of meeting…
