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EDITOR'S NOTE
Sep 14, 2009; ... "To feel at home, stay at home! -Clifton Fadiman (writer, radio personality) Simple words, but I've taken them to heart. So have a lot of Westerners. The crummy economy and the "keep-it-local" movement have kept many of us from roaming as much as we usually do. One friend of mine ...
Our best idea
Sep 14, 2009; ... Dayton Duncan was an impressionable 9-year-old when he made his first journey into the West* s national parks. He had the kind of life-changing experience that many people have enjoyed in the parks. Beginning Sept. 27, it will pay off in 12 hours of evocative public television, exploring how ...
Peril in the parks
Sep 14, 2009; ... SNAPSHOT Early August: A woman and her young son are stranded for five days in a remote corner of Death Valley National Park in 117 degreeaverage heat; the boy doesn't survive. Late August: Two climbers fall in Grand Teton; one is airlifted from a ledge by helicopter. The ...
Books for lonely times
Sep 14, 2009; ... I grew up in a family of seven in a one-bathroom house, a ratio of humans to toilets that more than one of us kids used in college-application essays as proof of our ability to problemsolve. The walls were thin, and voices carried. Someone was always playing the piano. When we traveled, we ended ...
The sky is a crowded attic
Sep 14, 2009; ... An interview with novelist Andrew Sean Greer Novelist Andrew Sean Greer is the author of The Story of a Marriage, The Confessions of Max Tivoli, The Path of Minor Planets, and the short story collection How It Was For Me. Among other honors, Greer has won thePENIO'Henry Prize for Short ...