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"There is poetry here."
This is the tagline for the Brook Farm Inn, a bed-and-breakfast in Lenox, Massachusetts, where my wife and I are checking in for the evening. The phrase is embossed in gold beneath the inn's logo—two cattail spikes, bent toward the sun—on cups and saucers in the front room display case, on top of which sits a poem of the day on a reading stand.
Today's poem is "This Is the Dream," by Norwegian poet Olav H. Hauge, translated by Robert Bly and Robert Hedin:
This is the dream we carry through the world
that something fantastic will happen
that it has to happen
that time will open by itself
that doors shall open by themselves
that the heart will find itself open
that mountain springs will jump up
that the dream will open by itself
that we one early morning
will slip into a harbor
that we have never known.
Years ago, one dream I carried into the world was that I wanted to be a poet. And so it came to pass that I entered the MFA program in poetry at New York University. If there was a secret language poets spoke, I wrote in my application's statement of purpose, I wanted to speak it. And so for a year, I spaketh and workshoppeth, and then, in my second year, my teachers and fellow students journeyed north here, to Brook Farm Inn, to write poems and break bread together.
That was in 1996. Fifteen years later, I am back, not as a poet but as a literary tourist.
"Literary tourist?" you say. "I've never heard of such a term." Watch closely, because here's where we pivot from personal anecdote to microtrend thinkpiece lede. Ever make a special trip to a used bookstore? Visit Shakespeare's home in Stratford-upon-Avon? Pilgrimage to a writer's house or grave? Friend, you are a literary tourist.
There are varieties of the literary tourism experience, to be sure. Writers' houses, gravesites, sites of novels both fictional and real, hotels with literary tie-ins—all are now considered part of a proper, albeit small, sector in the travel industry. Hotels all over the world—, many of them upscale, in places as diverse as Paris, Taos, Miami, Hanoi, New York, London, San Francisco, and Morocco—have literary themes.
The very term seems oxymoronic—literary connotes highbrow, learned, rarefied, while tourism may conjure up visions of fanny packs and Germans who walk four abreast on city streets. Literary tourists' ranks include the antiquarian who flies to the Boston Book Fair to acquire pricey ephemera to fill out a collection as well as the visitors to literary amusement parks such as Dickens World in Kent or The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Orlando Resort.
In academe, literary tourism thrives as a branch of literary-cultural studies. Nicola J. Watson, Senior Lecturer at England's Open University, defines literary tourism as "the interconnected practices of visiting and marking sites associated with writers and their work." The phenomenon of readers traveling to places they came to know through books began as a rather highbrow practice in 19th-century England, with the rise of the writer's biography and a desire for authenticity, particularly in fiction. Nowadays, legions mount their bikes on "Pirsig pilgrimages" in the American West to retrace the voyage taken by the author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (which has spawned at least one memoir). LiteraryTourist.com, founded in 2009 by Nigel Beale, a Canadian writer and bibliophile, includes a directory of 8,000 used and new bookstores, literary landmarks, lectures, book fairs, writers' festivals, and historical sites. Philosopher-essayist Alain de Botton counts himself as a fan.
On a recent visit to my mother's house in South Jersey, I got lost a few blocks away and found myself in front of the Whitman-Stafford House in Laurel Springs. Now nestled in a suburb amid lots of traffic, this was Walt Whitman's summer getaway, where he wrote Specimen Days in his later years. It seemed a nice bookend to my visits as a college student to his grave in Camden's Harleigh Cemetery, where I recited "Song of Myself" in hopes of some poetic access to Whitman's long-gone physical being.
* * *
It occurs to me that I have been a literary tourist all my life, that the very act of studying under established writers, under our current definitions, is in itself a kind of literary tourism. There's a fine line between tourist and voyeur, between mentor and docent. Part of studentship is a chance to see how the other half lives.
Back when I was in grad school, however, I was skeptical of the poetry retreat idea. How would sleeping over in a Victorian house full of doilies, period furniture, and neurotic grad students help me write poems? Wouldn't sleeping in the same house as my poetry idols lead to the worst of writer's blocks?
There might be poetry there, sure. But was it my poetry?
That was then, and this is now. Fresh scones out of the oven are set on a table beside little knives with which to dab fresh jam, and I am not ashamed to say I'm psyched. As I watch the flames crackling in the living room fireplace, I think how not only am I different than I was, but the place itself is different than how I remembered it. New owners Linda and Phil Halpern have spruced up the interior and the grounds since buying it 10 years ago. Previous owners Betty and Bob Jacob started the "poetry theme" when they took over Brook Farm in 1986, adding the tagline "There is poetry here." That tradition—a poem a day displayed in the receiving room, and shelves upon shelves of poetry titles, many of them inscribed—remains.
This visit also marks the first overnight stay away from home for both my wife and me since the birth of our first daughter more than four years ago. We go upstairs to our room ("The Poet's Room," which I booked based on the name; others include "Romance in Lenox" and "The Tanglewood Suite," the latter sounding too downright soft porno-ish for my tastes). Our grad student babysitter is about to experience middle-of-the-night sniffles and a 5:45 a.m. wake-up call from the two-year-old (our second child). Two glasses of sherry topped by folded napkin fans await on a tiny table. Again: psyched.
* * *
We didn't take a bus or anything from NYU to the Brook Farm Inn. Our teachers, Sharon Olds and Galway Kinnell, along with 16 other students, drove up in a couple of cars. Both teachers brought typewriters. We'd hear them clacking away from our shared third-floor rooms. We workshopped poems before cooking group suppers. On a grocery run—I remember that Sharon requested Twinings English breakfast tea—another student came along with her own list of very specific dietary items, none of them to do with health restrictions, but more like some sort of disorder. We played wiffle ball. Sharon brought it on the field, and slid into base once. Galway's swing was even and got him easy base hits.
Back then, I was eager to impress my teachers and to come off as confident to my fellow poet-students. Neither would happen—I remember that the sestina I wrote the first afternoon, using the palindromes "dog/god," "crab/bark," and "elbow/wobble," went over like a lead balloon.
Whenever I think of myself as that young man I grow a little embarrassed, as one who engaged in, as Wordsworth recalls returning to Tintern Abbey, the "coarser pleasure of my boyish days." There were flasks, cigars smoked out in the backyard, gossiping. "I cannot paint / What I then was," Wordsworth writes, and that's fine with me: remembering which version of myself visited Brook Farm 15 years ago fills me with both nostalgia and embarrassment.
* * *
My wife goes straight to sleep on our pillow-top mattress, and I dive into Brook Farm's history, which is as star-studded as it is labyrinthine.
The physical house, built in 1882, began as a "rental cottage" in another part of town, owned by Frederick William Rackemann (his wife, the former Elizabeth Dwight Sedgwick, is of the Boston Brahmin Sedgwicks, from founding father Theodore to Warhol muse Edie). The Rackemanns rented out the cottage to a Mr. and Mrs. Burton and Constance Cary Harrison, formerly of Richmond, Virginia. The Harrisons, and in particular Constance, were shameless name-droppers who made the most of Lenox society. In her memoir, Recollections Grave and Gay (coincidentally also the title of my new memoir), Constance writes that the people who met each summer in Lenox were
of the cultured and refined class of American society, knowing each other intimately, and satisfied to exchange simple entertainments in their pretty, picturesque homes. We had tea parties followed by games of twenty questions, by charades, and dumb crambo, where fun and wit were the order of the hour. We walked to and from each other's houses, attended by maids with lanterns. Every Saturday evening there was a gathering at Sedgwick Hall, for dancing and reunion, to which the new-rich magnates of New York came as total strangers.
The Harrisons hosted, among others, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Andrew Carnegie, and the poet Emma Lazarus, a family friend who wrote "The New Colossus" as part of a literary magazine put together as a fundraiser. Odds are the words that ended up on the Statue of Liberty ("Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free") were composed or at least recited in the cottage where I was to sleep that night.
The next owners willed the cottage to their waiter, who, because he didn't own the land it rested on, had to move the house to its current spot in Lenox on Hawthorne Street. The house changed hands over the years, becoming the Shadowood Inn in 1949. Its proximity to outdoor classical music venue Tanglewood adds credence to the legend that Leonard Bernstein was a guest.
A descendant of Ralph Waldo Emerson bought the house in the 1970s and changed its name to Brook Farm Inn, an homage to the utopian community the transcendentalist thinker backed in the 1840s.
Nathaniel Hawthorne, a Lenox resident from 1850 to 1852, was one of the original Brook Farm supporters, and based his novel The Blithedale Romance on the months he spent there. The novel's main character, a poet named Miles Coverdale who is regarded as a Hawthorne stand-in, moves to Brook—err, Blithedale Farm to live a pooled-labor, Fourier-socialist agrarian ideal. A kind of Occupy Wall Street for transcendentalists, at once beautifully and naively American, Brook Farm/Blithedale "adopted the paradisiacal system," Coverdale explains. "[W]e had divorced ourselves from pride,"
and were striving to supply its place with familiar love. We meant to lessen the laboring man's great burden of toil, by performing our due share of it at the cost of our own thews and sinews. We sought our profit by mutual aid, instead of wresting it by the strong hand from an enemy, or filching it craftily from those less shrewd than ourselves (if, indeed, there were any such in New England), or winning it by selfish competition with a neighbor; in one or another of which fashions every son of woman both perpetrates and suffers his share of the common evil, whether he chooses it or no. And, as the basis of our institution, we purposed to offer up the earnest toil of our bodies, as a prayer no less than an effort for the advancement of our race.
"We get calls all the time asking if this was the site of Brook Farm," inn owner Linda Halpern tells me over tea. There are "several local connections," she says, but the actual site is in what is now the West Roxbury neighborhood of Boston.
* * *
There are numerous literary-themed B&Bs, from Akwaaba Bed and Breakfast in Washington, D.C. (with rooms "tailored around African American authors and classic genres"), to Monterey's Lewis Carroll–inspired Jabberwock Bed and Breakfast ("Do come with Alice into the Jabberwock's 'Looking-Glass' world, where time runs backwards, things are not always as they appear and every day is an un-birthday"), to at least one other poetry-themed bed-and-breakfast in Massachusetts alone (Poetry Ridge in Greenfield, with its slightly overwrought and perhaps creepy tagline, "Come stay with us and release the pent-up sonnets from your Inner Shakespeare!"). We may want to connect with our literary past, but we have to factor in modern conveniences, yes?
"If I think of the Brook Farm Inn as a B&B aimed at poetry lovers, then yes, this is literary tourism, sure," Anne Trubek, author of A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses, writes in an e-mail to me. She has written about this microtrend extensively and calls it "literary voyeurism, worship, or, more crudely, lit porn."
"I looked at the pictures online and immediately wanted to [say], 'That bathtub is beautiful! Look at those beds!' But it is not very Brook Farm-y, is it? Jacuzzis don't strike me as very Transcendentalist.
"As the physical book becomes scarce, people will seek out other sorts of physical ways to connect with books, like literary tourism," Trubek points out.
* * *
Poets, aspiring or established, have come to Brook Farm Inn, informally or formally, for decades now. The inn has hosted readings and workshops with Galway Kinnell, Philip Levine, Stephen Dunn, Robert Creeley, Barbara Wind, Alfred Corn, Bob Jacob, Richard Berlin, along with collaborative events with the nearby Amy Clampitt House and Edna St. Vincent Millay Society at Steepletop.
The NYU poetry retreats at Brook Farm Inn started in the early 1980s and consisted of on-site workshops, retreating to rooms, and communal meals. "I had a great time," says January O'Neil, a poet who went to Brook Farm the same year I went. "I remember hanging out and making meals together, being stressed out from working on my thesis, and thinking I'm never going to make it in the po biz." Hearing this almost makes me tear up, since I thought I was the only one who was nervous that weekend.
Sharon and Galway presented a poem for each workshop along with us students, she recalls. "We also had to memorize a poem, and mine was "What Kind of Times Are These" by Adrienne Rich."
There were also the extra-credit activities.
"I remember Nick Flynn disappearing into the basement with a female poet," Aaron Belz, a poet and critic who went on a retreat in March 1994, recalls. "I think it was just to explore the nether regions. They reemerged about 45 minutes later."
Belz attached the poem he wrote that weekend, after "achieving a significant beer buzz." Entitled "Rhapsody on a Windy Afternoon," it mentions "a dark, onion-like hunger" and a Silverado in a shed. "In the on-site workshop, Sharon Olds said, 'I appreciate how variegated this poem is.'"
"Otherwise," Belz said, his memory of the weekend is "a blur."
* * *
The next morning at breakfast, the Halperns' son and daughter-in-law, in town for a visit, play with their eight-month-old son in the innkeepers' section of the kitchen. We start to pine for our own kids. The night before, we had walked to a restaurant in town for a rich meal and a bottle of wine. I was a bit hung over.
The boy clinks a glass with the side of a spoon. And that sound—heard at so many weddings and banquets—brings back a memory from the same dining room when, at our group dinner 15 years ago, we recited the poems we memorized. We would clink our glass and stand up from our chairs, like private schoolchildren. How could I have forgotten how Galway Kinnell recited Yeats's "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" with a student to help him along?
I remember now that I memorized William Carlos Williams's "Queen-Anne's Lace" and that, after I recited it, another student told me she thought it advocated violence against women. She had a point, what with the mention of "Wherever / his hand has lain there is / a tiny purple blemish," although I saw it as more of a prayer for forgiveness for being a man in a world graced by women ("a pious wish to whiteness gone over")—the virgin/whore complex and all that. Such repartee among writers isn't uncommon. I was just happy to remember the whole poem.
After breakfast and our good-byes, we take a side trip to Arrowhead, Herman Melville's house in the Berkshires. We are short on time so we just drive by, but supposedly you can sit at the same desk where the writer wrote Moby-Dick, and look at the same Mount Greylock he looked at while contemplating the whiteness of the whale. Doesn't the mountain, the tour guide may ask you, resemble the back of a whale? I go home to find out that it was the tree line that made this impression on Melville. Anne Trubek points out in her book that "the curators have considered having the trees cut down so the whale-ish look of the hill will again appear."
On the drive home, I ask my wife if she knows any poems by heart. "I know one by Robert Creeley," she says, and without a beat she recites "I Know a Man."
All these years I've known my wife, and I didn't know she knew these words. It took a literary trip out to the woods to an old house to hear her say "for / christ's sake, look / out where yr going."
Daniel Nester's most recent book is the memoir-in-essays Shader: 99 Notes on Car Washes, Making Out in Church, Grief, and Other Unlearnable Subjects (99: The Press, 2015). He is the author of the nonfiction books How to Be Inappropriate (2009) and God Save My Queen I and II (2003, 2004), and is the editor of The Incredible Sestina...
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Daniel Nester's most recent book is the memoir-in-essays Shader: 99 Notes on Car Washes, Making Out in Church, Grief, and Other Unlearnable Subjects (99: The Press, 2015). He is the author of the nonfiction books How to Be Inappropriate (2009) and God Save My Queen I and II (2003, 2004), and is the editor of The Incredible Sestina...
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We describe the properties of the Sun, those of its Active Regions (Centres of Activity, ARs or CAs) and the 11 and 22-year cycles as observed via the variable numbers of sunspots. We describe the variations with time of the solar irradiance and of the flux of ejected magnetised plasma. We discuss the probable cause of solar variability. Planetary influences are ruled out; the variability is intrinsic and is described by the solar dynamo. The dynamo is characterised by internal toroidal and more superficial poloidal fields, interchanging and alternating in a 22-year periodicity. From these two components in the solar magnetic fields emanate two possible scenarios for the Sun-climate interaction.
Solar irradiance variations are related to those in the solar toroidal magnetic fields. The fraction of the solar irradiance that reaches the Earth's ground level and low troposphere is emitted by the solar photosphere. That fraction does not significantly vary since the quiet photosphere does not significantly vary during the cycle. The variable part of the solar radiation flux is mainly emitted by the chromospheric parts of the CAs. That radiation component does not reach the Earth's troposphere since it is absorbed in the higher, stratospheric terrestrial layers. Tropospheric solar-driven variations should therefore be due to stratosphere–troposphere coupling. The Group Sunspot number RGs is a proxy for the variable irradiance component and for the toroidal field variations.
Ejected solar plasma clouds such as the Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) and plasma ejected from Ephemeral Solar Regions and from the polar facular regions are related to variations in the poloidal magnetic fields. On the average they have their maximum intensity about a year after the maximum number of spots: we call this interval the Energetic Emissions Delay. These gas clouds fill the heliosphere with magnetised plasma. Thus, by emitting magnetised plasma, the Sun influences the Earth's atmosphere indirectly, by heliospheric modulation of the component of the galactic cosmic radiation (CR) that reaches tropospheric levels. Modulation is only important for cosmic ray particles with energies below about 50 GeV. Cosmic ray ionisation plays a minor role at ground level but it is the predominant ionising agent in higher atmospheric layers, already above a few kilometres. The amplitudes of the CR variations depend on those of the solar cycle. The atmospheric rate of ionisation varies with CR-intensity. A current hypothesis is that the variable ionisation may affect the degree of cloudiness. Cosmogenic radionuclides such as 10Be are proxies for this influence and for the poloidal field variations.
The RG and cosmogenic radionuclide proxies, although loosely correlated, refer to the two different aspects of the solar dynamo with their different terrestrial effects; they do not reach maximum intensity simultaneously and should therefore neither be confused nor be interchanged. Cases have occurred in which the one varied strongly while the other did hardly or not at all. The explanation must be intrinsic in dynamo theory.
There is a significant solar signal in the troposphere; it depends on latitude and longitude. A physical investigation of the cause of the Sun-climate relationship based on one unique ΔT(time)-curve, assumed valid for the whole Earth's surface, is therefore basically incorrect. Never during the past 10,000 years has the Sun been as active in ejecting magnetised plasma as during the past few decades. Estimates suggest that the level of solar activity may recently have passed its maximum and that it may decrease in coming decades. Solar activity is variable with six well-determined quasi-periodicities. Attempts to theoretically describe the solar dynamo have so far succeeded only in explaining the qualitative aspects. They fail in a numerical description and notably in one that would permit one to forecast solar activity with acceptable precision. This is so because the solar dynamo is a non-linear system that occasionally shows phase catastrophes. It is a quasi-periodic engine with the properties of deterministic chaos. "The future of such a chaotic system is intrinsically unpredictable".


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Labour needs to engage more with women voters because they are more likely to have given up supporting the party than men, Deborah Mattinson, the prime minister's focus group guru, said today.
Mattinson told a fringe meeting that 60% of lapsed Labour voters were women.
Her comments coincided with an announcement by the prime minister that free nursery provision would be extended to children aged two under a plan to extend childcare over the next 10 years.
Speaking at a meeting to consider union support for Labour, Mattinson said that while 75% of members of a union such as Unite were men, lapsed Labour voters were more likely to be women.
She did not dwell on Labour's problems in the polls. But she said that David Cameron had weaknesses the party could exploit.
She said that 55% of voters think Cameron is lightweight. This was illustrated, she said, by a focus group she conducted last week at which one participant said: "I reckon he was invented by a marketing department."
Mattinson went on: "People do not understand what he stands for. He does not ring true."
Even though the story of Cameron cycling home from the Commons while his papers were transported in his official car happened 18 months ago, it was still raised in focus groups. It seemed to say something about Cameron's character, she said.
She also suggested that photographs of Cameron on a beach holiday with his wife did not go down well with voters.
"People are not stupid. They know that was rigged. They know that was fixed. That's not helpful for him. It means that people start to doubt that he means what he says," she said.
She said Cameron had not detoxified the Tory party brand, as claimed.
Parents can already get free childcare for up to 15 hours a week for children aged three and four. In an interview with the Sunday Telegraph today, Brown said he wanted to extend the cover to children aged two under a programme expected to be introduced over several years at a cost of up to £1bn a year.
The government has piloted the scheme with 20,000 less well-off families. Extending the scheme to cover all families could benefit up to 600,000 children.
At the same fringe addressed by Mattinson, Douglas Alexander, the
international development secretary and Brown's election coordinator, said the party needed to change the way it campaigned.
He said he realised how inappropriate traditional campaigning was when he was driving around his constituency shouting at voters through a megaphone. That type of campaigning "interrupted" voters while they were relaxing or shopping, he said.
"The model of our campaigning has got to change from the disruptive model where you try to interrupt people to being a communicative model," he said.
Alexander said Labour wanted to learn from the way the Barack Obama campaign was using the internet. Using the net as a tool "to empower organisations in the real world as opposed to the virtual world" was important, said Alexander.
Anyone who registered with the Obama website would receive the telephone numbers of fellow supporters living locally so that they could organise together, he said.
Despite financial problems, the party had continued to invest in technology to target voters so it was "comfortably competitive" with the other parties.


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A Work in Progress by Tony MagistraleJune 22nd, 2010
Tony sent this to me today. He is currently visiting and teaching in Germany. It is a work in progress.
For Klaus Post
Tourists smile for pleasant family
photographs. They saunter into town
through cobblestoned centralplatz–
a neat row of curved pastel-colored houses
and shops, red brick medieval gate.
These facades are like tubs of ice cream:
raspberry next to vanilla next to pistachio,
and the ice cream here
is some of the best in Bavaria.
It's all lovely.
Even as I wander these quiet streets
in search of someone willing to talk
about the shadows that still hang over
this place. How could an entire town,
so friendly and well-behaved,
turn so sharply to the right
that it fell off
into a deep-river current of hate?
Buried in mass graves under a lime-green forest
four hundred yards outside the town gate,
the anonymous thousands that died
building Hitler's last prayer secret weapon,
jet engine Messerschmidts, machines
that eventually shared the same fate
as those that were forced to fabricate;
Allied bombs rained down
before a single plane got off the ground.
All things human are shadow stained
and, like the father in "Hansel and Gretel,"
we often make the same mistake
believing the forest is there
to hide and abide our darkest bidding.
History casts long shadows
from the woods outside this town;
groves of pine grow sturdy and strong
their roots nestled in among the bones of those
who knew only suffering and then were gone.
And photographs of slave labor camps
underground are, I suspect, exceedingly rare
in Bavarian towns with reputations to protect
for quaint little ice cream shops.
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when crisp alpine winds
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and shadows rise from the forest floor
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Readers who enjoy books by Luanne Rice, Kristin Hannah and Susan Wiggs will enjoy this emotional and compelling story of love, family and romantic adventure.
Bestselling author Barbara Freethy presents her most powerful contemporary novel -- the story of three unique sisters ... the secrets that bind them for life ... and the summer that will set them free.
Eight years ago, the three McKenna sisters -- Kate, Ashley, and Caroline -- had their fifteen minutes of fame. Driven by their ambitious father, they won an around-the-world sailing race as teenagers. But something happened out on the turbulent sea -- during a fierce storm they could never forget ...
Now Tyler Jamison has come to Castleton, a picturesque island off the coast of Washington State, asking questions about the famous McKennas. But even as the sisters close ranks against the tenacious reporter, the past threatens to drown them in its wake. It will take Caroline's willingness to right a wrong, Ashley's struggle to face her greatest fears, and Kate's attempt to embrace life -- and love -- again to finally calm the winds and stop the rain...
Reviews: "Freethy is at the top of her form. Fans of Nora Roberts will find a similar tone here, framed in Freethy's own spare, elegant style." Contra Costa Times
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Barbara Freethy is a #1 NY Times Bestselling Author, a distinction she received for her novel, SUMMER SECRETS. Her 34 novels range from contemporary romance to romantic suspense and women's fiction. Nine of her other books have also appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List in the past two years, including Don't Say A Word, All She Ever Wanted, Silent Run, and Just The Way You Are. Her books have won numerous awards - she is a six-time finalist for the RITA for best contemporary romance from Romance Writers of America and her book DANIEL'S GIFT won the honor and was also optioned for a television movie.
Known for her emotional and compelling stories of love, family, mystery and romance, Barbara enjoys writing about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary adventures. She is currently writing a connected contemporary family series, THE CALLAWAYS. Book #1 ON A NIGHT LIKE THIS and Book #2 SO THIS IS LOVE are currently available for purchase. FALLING FOR A STRANGER (Book #3) will be released July 16, 2013
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Barbara Freethy is one of those authors who really knows just how to wrap a reader around her little finger. A master at stories of love, family, and relationships, with SUMMER SECRETS she's reached a new and challenging plateau, skillfully weaving an intriguing tale of family loyalty that's set against a backdrop of dark, carefully guarded secrets and the high profile world of blue water yacht racing. This book has something for everyone. It's the perfect summer read!
I loved this book, the story of 3 sisters, and the man who comes to town and turns their lives upside down. I know what it's like to get involved in your sister's life, so much drama, so many twists and turns to this story, you won't be able to put it down.
Barbara Freethy has long been one of my favorite authors. She's a master of beautifully-woven tales of family and always adds just the right touch of mystery. With SUMMER SECRETS, she has achieved a new plateau, giving us a unique and challenging story of family loyalty and dark deeds from the past set against the exciting backdrop of world class yacht racing. The reader is instantly drawn into this fast-paced adventure, a story rich with marvelous characters, gorgeous locations, and a love that will live long after the final page. This one is a definite keeper!
I just finished reading this book and I'm sorry it's over. It was so good. It's a great sisters story. I loved Kate, Ashley and Caroline. The romance was wonderful, too. And I love the twists and turns, the flashbacks to the past. A really well done novel. Very well written. I can't wait to read more books by this author.
I love Barbara Freethy's books. There is just the right balance of interesting characters. suspense and romance. Summer Secrets had lots of twist and turns, great love story and I was sorry to see it end. The story is based on a family with story intertwining with other's families as well. All bring issues and history to the story and which makes for an interesting as well as entertaining book. I highly recommend it!
Another winner from one of my favorite authors. The story is about three sisters and their somewhat crazy father who is obsessed with all things sailing. The San Juan Islands provide a beautiful setting. And the love story was great. I really felt like Kate had found her match. Lots of complications in this plot. I kept thinking the truth was one thing only to change my mind. I love an author who can keep me guessing!
I loved this book & really like the author. The sisters characters are very well developed and each sister has her own unique personality. It's not all love and roses, sunshine and light. This story deals with the ugly behind fame while making the characters human. I like that it deals with substance abuse without being preachy. Very well written & I will buy more of her books.
This is a fabulous book. Took it on our 3 day vacation and couldn't put it down. It has sisters, secrets, adventure and romance. A really well-told story with characters I'm still thinking about.
I have to say that I took a chance with Summer Secrets, but after the first chapter I was hooked. Barbara Freethy writes in great stride - she keeps you wanting more. It was refreshing not to easily figure out the 'secret', which I found to be the suspense. This was just what I needed after finishing a serious nonfiction novel placed in WWII era. You won't be disappointed if your looking for a great summer read. I will most likely give another one of her books a try.
A little romance, a little mystery, sibling rivalry...this is a page turner! I got caught up in the characters, their lives and didn't want to put it down. Tried to figure out the secret and thought I had, but it wasn't revealed until the end. I love this author and have downloaded more of her books!
Enjoyed the storyline and especially liked the characters in Summer Secrets. A real page turner that got me involved and kept me guessing as the plot played out. I definitely will read other books by Barbara Freethy.
I loved this book. It's one of my favourites
The author pulled together the issues of three sisters into one story quite well. It was easy to keep track of the threads from each sister's perspective and wove into a good mystery.
Great book. Three sisters, a couple of sexy guys, an intriguing plot line and lots of back story to make things more interesting. Romance and adventure. I loved the combination. It's a fast read, too. Once you start, you won't be able to put the book down. Highly recommended.
Take this book to the beach, or on vacation or anywhere you have a couple of hours to sink into a really good story. Once you get started, you won't want to stop. Lots of surprises in there, too. Great sister story and love story.
This is my new favorite book. The first time I picked it up I didn't put it down until I was finished. I read it from 1 a.m. to 12 p.m. There was no way I was going to put it down until I knew what happened next.
The novel started pretty slowly, but evolved very nicely. In the end, I couldn't put the book down.
My first book by this author. Won't be the last.
Great suspenseful story. Believable characters with love, lies, secrets and sexual tension. I like a longer book but it didn't take me long to get through it.
Get it!!! I couldn't put it down. This was the first book I've read from this auther & will read other books in the future. Very enjoyable book.
Nice and sweet, although plot was very predictable,
Sisters love mystery secrets absolutely enthralling
Kept me guessing
First book by this author, can't wait to read more.


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Authorities said a silver 2010 Buick LaCrosse belonging to 35-year-old Angela Steigerwalt (pictured right), of Tamaqua, Pa., was pulled over in Kinston on Sunday. After a brief standoff, police arrested the driver, 24-year-old Anthony Heath of Allentown (pictured left).
Steigerwalt's body was discovered by firefighters battling a brush fire on Saturday in Jim Thorpe, Pa. She was last seen leaving work Friday at the Kraft Foods Plant in Lehigh County.
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Particularly helpful were the "Solutions Salons" roundtables where each of us were able to share a vexing social media problem and receive immediate feedback from our peers. The conference was held at Microsoft's beautiful Conference Center in Redmond which offers giant coolers of free sodas. Free sodas are very tempting to those who work for and with nonprofits as evidenced here. Read a full recap of the day using storify.com, courtesy of Mixtape Communications' Zan McColloch-Lussier.
Another great presentation I was lucky enough to be part of recently was Maria Ross of Red Slice explaining the "Seven Deadly Sins of Branding" at the Association for Women in Communications luncheon. Maria succinctly explained the steps of building a brand identity in understandable terms. Repeat after me, "A logo is not a brand. A brand is your promise to your community."
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WASHINGTON – The Washington Post said Thursday that its Tehran correspondent, Jason Rezaian, appeared to have been detained in Iran with his wife and two freelance photojournalists.
The daily said it had "credible reports" of the detention, saying it was unclear who detained them or why.
"We are deeply troubled by this news and are concerned for the welfare of Jason, (his wife) Yeganeh (Salehi) and two others said to have been detained with them," Post foreign editor Douglas Jehl was quoted in the daily as saying.
Rezaian, 38, has been the Post correspondent in Tehran since 2012. He holds both American and Iranian citizenship, according to the Post.
His wife is an Iranian citizen who has applied for U.S. permanent residency and works as a correspondent for a newspaper based in the United Arab Emirates, the Post said.
The detentions would be the latest of U.S. citizens amid friction between the two countries.
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"We call on Iranian authorities to immediately explain why Jason Rezaian, Yeganeh Salehi and two other journalists have been detained, and we call for their immediate release," said CPJ's Sherif Mansour.
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So if I asked you about art, you'd probably give me the skinny on every art book ever written. Michelangelo, you know a lot about him. Life's work, political aspirations, him and the pope, sexual orientations, the whole works, right? But I'll bet you can't tell me what it smells like in the Sistine Chapel. You've never actually stood there and looked up at that beautiful ceiling; seen that. If I ask you about women, you'd probably give me a syllabus about your personal favorites. You may have even been laid a few times. But you can't tell me what it feels like to wake up next to a woman and feel truly happy. You're a tough kid. And I'd ask you about war, you'd probably throw Shakespeare at me, right, "once more unto the breach dear friends." But you've never been near one. You've never held your best friend's head in your lap, watch him gasp his last breath looking to you for help. I'd ask you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Known someone that could level you with her eyes, feeling like God put an angel on earth just for you. Who could rescue you from the depths of hell. And you wouldn't know what it's like to be her angel, to have that love for her, be there forever, through anything, through cancer. And you wouldn't know about sleeping sitting up in the hospital room for two months, holding her hand, because the doctors could see in your eyes, that the terms "visiting hours" don't apply to you. You don't know about real loss, 'cause it only occurs when you've loved something more than you love yourself. And I doubt you've ever dared to love anybody that much. And look at you… I don't see an intelligent, confident man… I see a cocky, scared shitless kid. But you're a genius Will. No one denies that. No one could possibly understand the depths of you. But you presume to know everything about me because you saw a painting of mine, and you ripped my fu**ing life apart. You're an orphan right?
You think I know the first thing about how hard your life has been, how you feel, who you are, because I read Oliver Twist? Does that encapsulate you? Personally… I don't give a shit about all that, because you know what, I can't learn anything from you, I can't read in some fuckin' book. Unless you want to talk about you, who you are. Then I'm fascinated. I'm in. But you don't want to do that do you sport? You're terrified of what you might say. Your move, chief.
And night at the museum 3 still coming to the cinemas.. I must watch it.. :/
This, together with Rik Mayall and Bob Hoskins makes this year one of the worst for losses of some treasured gentlemen.
All of which where are large part of my child hood with their work.
RIP chaps, you will be missed
This guy, single-handedly made the entire world smile, again and again. Such a shame he couldn't make himself smile inside.
The sky will never shine so bright again.
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If you're a regular reader (and listener) of this site you know by now that myself and fellow camera-enthusiast George Ponder have been…harsh…on the AT&T Nokia Lumia 900's camera. We rated it as one of the worst we've used in quite some time (though not as bad as Dell's) and it often prevents us from using the phone as our daily driver. The Titan II though easily blows us away.
We've staked our position that it's the hardware that is the problem on the 900 and while we still believe that to be the case it does appear Nokia has finally figured out how to best optimize its software. Of course we're talking about the un-released Tango OS and firmware update which we detailed yesterday.
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Re: Mathematica 7: PieChart: opacity of a sector label
Thank you. I want pale colors in the pie sectors, and your code works well
for this. My puzzle now is that the darkness or opacity of the radial
callout line to a sector's label is influenced by the color or opacity of
its sector. Given this, when a sector has a pale color its callout line is
hard to see. So far, my tests indicate that EdgeForm operates on sector
outlines and not on callout lines attached to sector outlines.
On 11/27/08 9:53 AM, "David Park" <djmpark at comcast.net> wrote:
> Seems like a bug or bad design. Are you really using Opacity in a pie chart,
> or are you just using it to lighten the colors? Why not use:
> PieChart[{0.3, 1 - 0.3},
> ChartLabels -> Placed[{m1, ""}, "RadialCallout"],
> ChartStyle ->
> {Directive[Blend[{Darker[Blue], White}, .5]],
> Directive[GrayLevel[.9]]},
> BaseStyle -> Directive[FontFamily -> "Helvetica", 12],
> ImageSize -> 200]
> David Park
> djmpark at comcast.net
> http://home.comcast.net/~djmpark
> From: Gordon Robertson [mailto:grobertson at bcgsc.ca]
> Could I ask for help with the following? In Mathematica 6, a sector's label
> was
> automatically dark (very readable) text, independent of the Opacity[] of its
> sector. In Mathematica 7, at this point I'm finding that a pie sector's
> label has the
> opacity of its sector. For example, the following has a pale blue sector
> with an 'm1' label -- but both the blue and the label have an opacity of
> 0.5. Putting Opacity[1] into the BaseStyle Directive does not change this.
> PieChart[{0.3, 1 - 0.3},
> ChartLabels -> Placed[{m1, ""}, "RadialCallout"],
> ChartStyle -> {
> Directive[Darker[Blue], Opacity[0.5]],
> Directive[Gray, Opacity[0.2]]},
> BaseStyle -> Directive[FontFamily -> "Helvetica", 12],
> ImageSize -> 200]
> I've studied the PieChart help documentation for some time without finding a
> way to declare the label as opaque i.e. dark. I'm probably simply not seeing
> what I need to see.
> Thanks in advance for your help. I'm on an Intel Mac with OS X 10.5.5.
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Just bought my first 2002 WRX in January. Love it verrrry much.
Anyways, yesterday was a pretty hot day maybe like 86 degrees, decided to take off my front badge. So did the whole blow dryer/dental floss.
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OTTAWA Jan 22 (Reuters) - Canadian retail sales jumped far more than expected in November on higher sales of new cars and Black Friday purchases, pointing to some much-needed vigor for a struggling economy.
Separate data showed the annual inflation rate rose in December as food prices surged, suggesting consumers were feeling the impact from the weaker Canadian dollar.
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Sales rose 1.7 percent, Statistics Canada said on Friday, the biggest increase since June 2014 and topping forecasts for 0.2 percent. Volumes rose 1.5 percent.
Canada emerged from a mild recession in the third quarter, but lackluster activity and the drop in oil prices have prompted concern of another downturn. The Bank of Canada this week said the economy stalled in the fourth quarter.
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Noel: Right. That leads right to my last question here was just once you have these agile teams, the agile department and that kind of thing, and they do want to expand it to the organization, what are some of the ways besides just showing, "Hey, look how agile we are. Look how happy we all are now at work."? What are some ways that those teams that have managed to get it right can kind of either convince doubters or even just help it spread faster than hoping everyone else catches on?
Ahmed: Modeling the desired behavior, and notice the words. We're not talking about demonstrating the practices. I'm talking about ... see and that's the difference here. A lot of the training, and when people talk about agile we talk about these milestone events, talk about retrospectives, we talk about writing user stories or our user theory workshop, we talk about chartering, but what happens in between? What happens in between is really the manifestation of the mindset and the behaviors of the people. What happens between the iteration planning session and the demo, or the daily stand-up? What happens in the day-to-day life how people think and react and behave? That's the best attractor to agile because suddenly people will see people being agile not doing agile. And, people are sick and tired of new processes because they are simply the flavor of the month and we know that there's a new flavor of the month cooked up. But really, the power is, the breath of fresh air is, to see a cultural shift and to see people truly start to change the way they think about work and the way they behave, and the way they collaborate.
And that, from my point of view, has been the big aha moment for people to come and say I want to be like that; not the iterations, not the daily stand-ups, but the culture, the behavioral, the habits. And those habits ... part of my presentation or workshop and tutorial there will be based on the work of the book, The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. The power of habit is that it's automatic. You don't think about it. Every person and every organization has developed personal and organizational habits. They know what they need to do in order to succeed. When we start to change those, that's really when agile becomes sustainable and spreads through the company.
Noel: That sounds awesome. That was great. I've never thought ... again, that so many sessions are based on improving your retrospectives, improving the work in each iteration, how to make stand-up meetings more fun and all that kind of stuff, and it's ...
Ahmed: We're done with that. It's the in between, it's the 90 percent of the other work that we're not talking about.
Noel: That's cool! That sounds like an awesome session. Everyone listening, again, this is Ahmed Sidky. He's going to be speaking Tuesday, November 12th, at the Better Software/Agile Development Conference East in Boston, Massachusetts, and his session is titled "Keystone Habits of Organizational Agility." Sounds like a fantastic session. Thanks so much for speaking to us today.
Ahmed: Thank you.
Ahmed Sidky, aka Dr. Agile, combines more than fifteen years of software development experience with research from his Ph.D. in agile transformation and agility assessment to guide enterprise agile transformations in Fortune 100 companies. Ahmed helps small to medium companies worldwide realize sustainable organizational agility and educates people—CEOs to developers—on the agile mindset and creating lean high-performing teams. The principal consultant at SCG Inc. and co-author of Becoming Agile in an Imperfect World, Ahmed consults, teaches, and writes. He co-founded the International Consortium for Agile, sat on the steering committee for the creation of the PMI-ACP® certification, and is a frequent speaker at agile conferences worldwide.
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In a continuing effort to stop underage drinking, the Baxter County Sheriff's Office and the Alcohol Beverage Control of Arkansas conducted a joint operation on April 5, 2012. The operation was designed ensure that local establishments that sell alcohol were properly checking IDs and not selling to minors.
An Enforcement Officer with ABC and Deputy Corporal Eddie Elliott used a 19-year old female to conduct controlled undercover attempts to purchase alcohol. Between the hours of 5 PM and 9 PM, the underage female went to twelve (12) businesses in Baxter County. Of the twelve businesses that were attempted, eight (8) did not sell to the minor while four (4) did complete a sale. It should be noted that the employees at all twelve (12) businesses asked for an ID from the minor however four (4) sold to the minor after looking at the ID. The employees were charged with Unknowingly Furnishing Alcohol to a Minor, a Class A Misdemeanor. They were issued a citation to appear in Baxter County District Court on May 3, 2012 at 9 am.
The Four (4) businesses and employees who sold are:
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The Hamilton All Star Jazz Band's Linc to the Future concert will celebrate the life of its 25-year patron, the Honourable Lincoln M. Alexander, a great Canadian, proud Hamiltonian, and life-long lover of Big Band music.

An extraordinary evening of swing will performed by young musicians whose lives have been enriched by their participation in the jazz band, thanks in large part to Linc's patronage. The musical event will reprise and expand upon a concert held in 2011 that showcased two dozen of Alexander's favourite 1940s Big Band songs.

Alexander will be present by video, taped during an interview with TVO's Steve Paikin, to introduce each of his chosen pieces.

The concert will raise funds for the Lincoln M. Alexander Scholarship Fund, which will allow many more developing musicians to have the opportunity to discover and hone their skills.

Alexander developed a love of swing-era Big Band music while living in Harlem as a teen in the late 1930s. The music touched his soul, and throughout his life, Alexander was nourished and inspired by this style of jazz.

"Listening to the HASJB takes me back to Harlem and the Apollo Theatre where I met my heroes - Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Stan Kenton, Ella Fitzgerald and many others," he once said.

Alexander served as honorary patron of the Hamilton All-Star Jazz Band for 25 years as a way of ensuring others could have their lives enriched by the music that had such a profound impact on his life.

Dr. Russ Weil, band founder and artistic director, said, "To have Linc as an honorary patron was a thrill. One of Canada's most prominent citizens....and from Hamilton. He spoke many times at our concerts about how great the band was and how much he loved the music. He was an inspiration to us all."

The Linc to the Future Concert will be held at Redeemer University College Auditorium, 777 Garner Rd. E., Ancaster, on Saturday May 11 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $25 ($20 for seniors and students) and are available at www.hamiltonallstarjazz.org or at Cavallo Nero Restaurant, 370 Wilson St. E. in Ancaster, 905 648-8888.


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Walcott's indecision and delay is provoked by his desire to play as a centre forward, and with just half a year left on his contract he could leave Arsenal for free at the end of the season.
"If you ask me will we sell Theo in January? No. I am frustrated, honestly. I have always been hopeful he will sign," said Wenger.
"Between the player and me it is all clear, he knows what he wants and he has to make up his mind. The negotiations have been going on a long, long time."
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ERNEST — The Todd Bird Club will meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the Blue Spruce Lodge at Blue Spruce County Park.
Club members Roger and Margaret Higbee will present "To Alaska and Back: The Fun of Driving to and From our 49th State." The program will follow their travel to Alaska, British Columbia and the Yukon and will include photographs of the scenery, wildflowers, birds, mosquitoes and other wildlife they encountered on their trip.
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Phew! Time flies, but we're making progress on our new house. We closed just over two weeks ago, but a lot has been done since then.
An hour after we closed, we already had paint purchased. We said that if we did anything before we moved our stuff in the next day, it was to paint the back living room. With the help of almost all of the my family working at once, we got it done in a few hours. It's nice to have that done.
Next day was moving day, which was really smooth because of our wonderful movers. I sat at the other house and just walked around.
I tried to document just a few of the flowers that were blooming in the back yard. It doesn't hurt that we bought our house from a Jackson Garden Club member.
We finally got things moved in and in place, so here's a "in progress" picture of our back living room. Since then we've hung art on the walls and done some other small things. We aren't putting anything in the bookcases or drawers yet because everything that's brown will be a crisp white in about a week or so!
We also experienced our first homeowner jitters when a string of really bad storms came through. We were still without cable and internet, so we had to watch a live stream of the weather forecast on our iPads.
We also had some fun with Arts, Eats & Beats. Such a good time in the neighborhood!
The next weekend we went camping on Enid Lake. Such a pretty place.
KT is enjoying her new space. She has so many windows to look out of and so many spots to lay in the sun. She has to prioritize!
We've had a few people over, including my whole side of the family (and then some) for Mother's Day/Brody's baby dedication. It's so nice to have a whole front living room to fit all 18 of us comfortably, with room to spare. This is definitely why we bought this house!
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July 6, 1957: Day of the Week
July 6, 1957 was the 187th day of the year 1957 in the Gregorian calendar. There were 178 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week was Saturday.
If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is samedi.
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Cancer is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Ruby is the modern birthstone for this month. Ruby is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Rooster is the mythical animal and Fire is the element for a person born on this day if we consider the very old art of Chinese astrology (or Chinese zodiac).
July 6, 1957 Historical Event(s)
- 1957Althea Gibson wins the Wimbledon championships, becoming the first black athlete to do so.
- 1957John Lennon and Paul McCartney of the Beatles are introduced to each other when Lennon's band the Quarrymen performs at the St. Peter's Church Hall fête in Woolton.
Who was born on July 6, 1957?
- 1957Ron Duguay, Canadian ice hockey player
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