Category: Travel
places I’ve been
The history of octagon houses have a confusing history. Originating in the 1850’s, the North American versions were either designed as an homage to the pseudoscience of phrenology, or they were an unique approach to…
Kentucky is a mystery to me. It’s a place of total unpredictability. It was the first state west of the Appalachians. It was difficult to get to, and it’s rocky soil made agriculture difficult. It…
Aberdeen, Washington. Hometown of Kurt Cobain, my teenage daughter’s current artistic obsession. I created a whole “Nirvana Tour”, including Seattle and Olympia sites, and ending in a visit to Aberdeen.
The legendary Re-Bar. A gay disco and underground hotspot located in an industrial building from the 1930s, it is now in danger of being demolished to make way for the forty-story office towers that have…