Vienna: Architectural Tour
Though I had visited Vienna before with Joel and my Austrian “sister” Christl, this was my first time to stay in the middle …
Brno: Villa Tugendhat
Joel, Lilli and I had long dreamed of seeing Villa Tugendhat, a house built by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe for Fritz …
Good Times in the Salzkammergut
When I stayed with the Schmid family in Austria in 1965, I didn’t realize that Vöcklabruck was the “Gateway to the Salzkammergut Cultural …
Salzburg: movie and more
Beautiful Salzburg! Tourists from all over the world identify this city as the setting for the 1965 movie, The Sound of Music, …
Revisiting Austria
Here I am on my Experiment in International Living. In the summer of 1965 I traveled to Austria with nine other American college …
Immigration Week at CHQ
For the fourth year in a row we were fortunate to spend a week at Chautauqua in western New York with our …
Cherrydale’s Russia Initiative
The year was 1997. In a remote town in the Ural Mountains, two girlfriends in the same apartment building shared dreams. Anna …
California & Oregon
On June 17, Steve and I flew to San Francisco to meet Joe Simmons, whose wife Karen, Steve’s sister, died so suddenly …
Hudson River Museums and Mansions
Though I had seen the Hudson River from Manhattan, I had never explored upriver until last month. After visiting Mass MoCA and …
Phillips Friends in Bastrop
Since 1998, eight friends-from-first-grade and I have gathered every couple of years in interesting places. In 2013 we met in Fredricksburg TX. This …