Readuponit: Travel and voracious reading

Max Hartshorne, travel website editor, sharing some of the stuff I read, hear and see with you. Updated every day. Click on the photos to enlarge them.

Poor Old Shine

May 7, 2013

Tweet                   Playing at the Green River Festival on July 20-21!

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Stories at Parties

May 5, 2013

Tweet I love the stories that you hear when you’re thrown into a party with dozens of strangers and just a few oasises  of people you know.  I went to a rockin party last night and here are two of the stories. A woman said she was married for ten years, and when she finally [...]

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Time to Dig a Garden…but How Big Should it Be?

May 4, 2013

Tweet Am I digging too big a hole? Too ambitious?  Am I really going to take care of and weed this big a garden? Today I set out to start my garden. Last year I was pretty cautious, planting just five or six short rows, but as so often happens, now I am hungry for [...]

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The Brother-in-Law Shows What Happens When You Marry into the Mob

May 1, 2013

Tweet Bart LaRocca had a problem.  It started when he decided to marry his high school sweetheart, Gina, who he was crazy about. But she had a family who was connected to the New York mob.  In F.X. Biasi Jr’s book, The Brother In Law, a complex story is retold through the eyes of a [...]

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How Do You Remember Someone? A Memorial for Our Friend Joe

April 27, 2013

Tweet   How do you say goodbye to a friend who has passed away?  Even at age 54, I feel inexperienced and naive about how to properly pay respects as my friends start the long march to heaven.  In the past five months, two of my closest associates are gone.  I have to be ready [...]

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Eating in East Tennessee

April 26, 2013

Tweet   For the past four days we’ve traveled around eastern Tennessee and I found the menus to be remarkably similar.  Perhaps it was because we wanted to take in the locally owned restaurants, and for the most part didn’t visit chains. But at these family style restaurants, there were some things that stayed exactly [...]

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