In the footsteps of Heidi in the Swiss Alps
MAIENFELD, SWITZERLAND — The alpine meadows. The soaring mountains. The cute little goats with bells around their necks, chiming away in the shadow of a hillside chalet.
MAIENFELD, SWITZERLAND — The alpine meadows. The soaring mountains. The cute little goats with bells around their necks, chiming away in the shadow of a hillside chalet.
Baltimore, MARYLAND – The first bloodshed in the Civil War occurred here in Baltimore not on a battleground between Union and Confederate soldiers but when a riot broke out.
Richmond, VIRGINA — The woman at the Confederate museum gift shop eyes the $50 bill I try to hand over.
Angel Island, CALIFORNIA – Today, Angel Island is a tranquil 30-minute ferry ride across the bay from Fisherman’s Wharf past Alcatraz Island.
Varmland, SWEDEN – One of Sweden’s greatest writers, Selma Lagerlof, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in this historic province.
Montgomery, ALABAMA – Before she became the world’s most famous flapper, she was known around her hometown as Zelda Sayre
Gulf Coast, ALABAMA – Stare straight ahead towards the horizon at the edge of the Gulf Coast of Alabama.
San Francisco, CALIFORNIA – Elijah Glasper knocks on his own door before pushing it open into a wide wedge, allowing light from the hallway.
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND — Artist Marc Chagall was already a tired old man in 1967 when he was invited to sit facing the blank windows of this town’s most famous church.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky used the slums of St. Petersburg and Leo Tolstoy used the trappings of its upper ranks in society to make the same point in their novels.