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Photographs of the Swiss Alps from Nick and Maggie DeWolf’s 1959 vacation.
Nick (who graduated from MIT at 19 and eventually founded Teradyne Corp before abandoning the technology industry and moving to Aspen, Colorado) passed away in 2006, leaving behind a prolific collection of over 50,000 film exposures, which are steadily being processed, scanned and uploaded to Flickr by his son-in-law Steve Lundeen.
View many, many more here.
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Pointed Sticks, October 1979
For more, see “Page Friday talks to the Pointed Sticks,” Ubyssey Thursday 4 October 1979
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… A Good Night - Good Day post…
Robert Doisneau, Place de la Concorde, c.1960
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Literary Lushes: Our 10 Favorite Book (and Play)-Writing Boozers
For many authors over the years, alcohol has been nearly as important a writing tool as pen, paper, poverty, and loneliness. Some have speculated that hard drinking and prolific writing might have similar genetic roots. Another theory is that the sauce, inhibition eliminator extraordinaire, might just make the very exhibitionist writing process easier, Time reports. Whatever the case, Fork in the Road has decided to canvass the canon for this week’s Our 10 Favorite Book (and Play)-Writing Boozers. In no particular order …
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"I made orange juice from concentrate and showed her the trick of squeezing the juice of one real orange into it. It removes the taste of being frozen. She marveled at this, and I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again."
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