Showing Archived Posts

Boroughing In

Posted June 30th, 2010 at 2:32 pm (UTC-4)
7 comments

Last time was the easy part. I’d been wanting to write about New York City, and I focused on the core of the Big Apple — Manhattan Island, whose power, glamour, and jaw-dropping scale form our image of the city as a whole. But there are four other boroughs, or administrative divisions, including one that […]

Tags: Posted in Uncategorized

The Ginormous Apple

Posted June 21st, 2010 at 7:10 pm (UTC-4)
6 comments

As the rocker Alice Cooper once put it, I’ve been “Big Apple dreamin’.” For me and anyone else who’s beguiled by New York City’s grandeur and charms, only a few months — a couple of years at most — can pass before the itch to visit again needs scratching. You, too, may have put big, […]

Tags: Posted in Uncategorized

Ch-ch-change

Posted June 14th, 2010 at 5:33 pm (UTC-4)
2 comments

While daring dashes into the unknown can be exhilarating, humans by and large prefer comfortable routines. Especially as we age, sharp course alterations threaten, scare, even debilitate us. “There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction […]

Tags: Posted in Uncategorized

Emancipation Day

Posted June 4th, 2010 at 6:15 pm (UTC-4)
7 comments

What would you call May 8th if you wanted to make it a holiday? Mayth? Would September 1st be Septemberst? No such holidays exist. But there is a similar one — in June, on the 19th. It’s a day of great significance to all Americans and African Americans in particular. It’s called “Juneteenth,” and a […]

Tags: Posted in Uncategorized

Ted Landphair

About

This is a far-ranging exploration of American life by a veteran Voice of America “Americana” reporter and essayist.

Ted writes about the thousands of places he has visited and written about as a broadcaster and book author. Ted Landphair’s America often showcases the work of his wife and traveling companion, renowned American photographer Carol M. Highsmith.

Ted welcomes feedback, questions, and ideas. View Ted’s profile. Watch a video about Ted and Carol by VOA’s Nico Colombant.

Photos by Carol M. Highsmith

Calendar

June 2010
M T W T F S S
« May   Jul »
 123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
282930