You know how it is: when you live in a town, you never actually visit the tourist attractions. But living in Portland or not, some of the tourist attractions are really worth it.
So today we went to visit the Pittock Mansion, in the Northwest of the city. It was well worth it, with displays of Maxfield Parrish paintings, lovely furniture, and the house itself is just exquisite. There's no such thing as a bad view in that place.
Anasazi World - Dewitt Jones and Linda Cordell
A photo book with text by Linda Cordell. Brief as the text was, I enjoyed it a lot more than the photography. Though many of the photos we...
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First post of my South Africa vacation 2009 travelogue. A summary of the last few days in brief. Sunday 05/31 - We left home remarkably earl... -
The New Statesman brings us a review by Mark Bearn of a recent translation of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. He gives us a rather unflatteri...
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The mountain man and the surgeon - economist.com Relative levels of poverty, using examples from Appalachia and the Congo. The internet is ...
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