title: Departures
author:  Elizabeth Oness 
description: Elizabeth Oness, whose story collection <i>Articles of Faith</i> won the 2000 Iowa Short Fiction Award, directs marketing and development for the literary press which she runs with her husband. She also teaches English at the Winona State University in Minnesota.
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  Elizabeth Visits America
  
  
  HEAVILAND MANOR
  
  TONNERRE
  
  CANNES
  
  LUSITANIA
  
  PLAZA HOTEL, NEW YORK
  
  SPLEISTVILLE
  
  PLAZA HOTEL, NEW YORK
  
  LATOUR COURT, LONG ISLAND
  
  LATOUR COURT, LONG ISLAND,
  
  PLAZA HOTEL, NEW YORK
  
  RINGWOOD, PHILADELPHIA
  
  PLAZA HOTEL, NEW YORK
  
  [BACK IN NEW YORK, PLAZA
  HOTEL.](Elizabeth%20Visits%20America_split_001.html#filepos154368)
  
  [NIAGARA.](Elizabeth%20Visits%20America_split_001.html#filepos168485)
  
  [CHICAGO.](Elizabeth%20Visits%20America_split_001.html#filepos175460)
  
  [GOING WEST](Elizabeth%20Visits%20America_split_001.html#filepos186614)
  
  [In the train going
  West.](Elizabeth%20Visits%20America_split_001.html#filepos186678)
  
  [Morning.](Elizabeth%20Visits%20America_split_001.html#filepos199832)
  
  [Still in the
  train.](Elizabeth%20Visits%20America_split_001.html#filepos201827)
  
  [San Francisco.](Elizabeth%20Visits%20America_split_001.html#filepos213249)
  
  [ON THE PRIVATE
  CAR](Elizabeth%20Visits%20America_split_001.html#filepos22