This past summer, we stayed at Oakland House Seaside Resort, in Brooksville, Maine, along the Eggemoggin Reach in Penobscot Bay. The property is large and consists of several business entities. We lodged in the hostel,…
Appendix to cheap motels and a hot plate
The original draft of the book had the following appendix. We decided not to use it. An abridged version has been published at www.mrzine.org. Do you think I should have included it in the book?…
dining in Portland / Letter to Eric Asimov
Eric Asimov is the New York Time's wine critic and a restaurant reviewer. Yesterday he wrote a glowing tribute to Portland, Oregon restaurants and some Portland chefs. Karen and I wrote him a letter, posted…
School Starts/Remembering Wyoming
I taught my first class this past Tuesday. It is a large lecture section of seventy students, in a course titled "Globalization and Labor." It was the first time I was in a classroom like…
Familiar Territory
The last stops on the book tour were in Milwaukee, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Washington DC, with a stop in Johnstown to visit friends. Much of this was familiar territory. Milwaukee is an industrial city hard…
Joplin, Carthage, St. Louis, Madison, and Chicago
While we were resting and visiting family in Joplin, Missouri, we went to the town of Carthage, a few miles away. Carthage was the site of a battle early in the Civil War, in 1861.…
Into the Heartland
In Austin we stayed at the Austen Motel, close to downtown. It is an old motor lodge on a large property, with attractive buildings, lots of colored tile, quirky artwork, and a lovely pool. It…
New Mexico and into Texas
The drive from Denver to Santa Fe seemed interminable, but the beauty of the New Mexican landscape, from the Raton Pass just across the border with Colorado to the open cattle country after that -…
Moab to Boulder
Our last stop in Utah was in Moab, a town in which we have spent many pleasant days hiking in the canyons and on the red rocks. Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park, Dead Horse…