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 …
Florida Excursions
Though Key West and St. Augustine are 467 miles apart, I got to visit both within the span of a week. On …
Honoring Robert Burns
A weekend of activities January 23-25 at Secession Golf Club (of which Steve is President) in Beaufort SC honored the 256th birthday …