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☆ A Speck of Old Iceland in Ice-Cold Lake Michigan
  + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Carson Vaughan | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
A refuge from the modern worldIn the fall of 1870, four young bachelors from the Icelandic fishing village of Eyrarbakki landed on Washington Island. By the end of the century, the island had become a center of Icelandic culture. Washington Island is the second-oldest Icelandic settlement in America, and if you know where to look, I assured Mel, hints of that history still abound. Established in 1904 by Ben Johnson, another Eyrarbakkian, the colonial-style Hotel Washington now offers eight small guest rooms and two shared bathrooms above a farm-to-fork restaurant awash in natural light. Once the island’s social hub, the hotel retains an old-world feel, despite the updates.
Persons: ”, “, Mel, Ben Johnson Locations: Eyrarbakki, Washington, Iceland, America
☆ A ‘Greenwich Village’ on the Prairie
  + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Carson Vaughan | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
Were I to write a Mari Sandoz biopic, I’d start with a shadow racing across her desk. I’d start at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 1935. I’d start with a 39-year-old hayseed — thin as a fence post and prickly as barbed wire — assaulting her typewriter on the ninth floor of the Nebraska State Capitol as a local bank teller plunges 135 feet to his death on the stone transept below. Perhaps I’d cut to the fingernail marks he left on the observation deck five floors above, or the note he left behind. “Why, I’d rather write my own way and dig ditches for my soup and hard tack than write lies for a yacht and sables.
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