By Linda McK.Stewart Was he poet then pilot? Or pilot then poet? Good question. Even those who knew him best might hesitate to reply. Antoine de Saint Exupéry, French war hero, airman, scholar, poet…
By Linda McK. Stewart As eruptions go, it doesn’t come close to Vesuvius or Mount Etna or even to the biggie at Mount St. Helens. But, the Great Chocolate Explosion at Vermont’s Ben & Jerry’s…
By Linda McK. Stewart “Purely perfect.” Such was the modest assessment of famed architect Stanford White as he surveyed his newly completed triumph, the Tennis Casino at Newport, R.I. The year was 1880, the height…
By Linda McK. Stewart It was London, 1983, the year when 39-year-old Michael West picked up his hat and walked out the door of a perfectly decent, center-city job. He was not answering the call…
The American Colony Hotel By Linda McK.Stewart In Jerusalem, a city with more than its fair share of angst and conflict, the five-star American Colony Hotel endures as an oasis of other world serenity. As…
By Linda McK. Stewart Who would say no? A Taglit-Birthright Israel trip is a ten-day holiday in Israel with all expenses paid, airfare included. Trips depart from Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Newark and JFK. Ten days…
Like transport designed for royalty, its eight coaches gleaming red and silver, looks like a creation by Cartier or maybe Tiffany, never ever to be mistaken for commonplace commuter conveyance. By Linda McK Stewart Some…
Today a stroll through this tidy town of some 30,000 contented residents reveals precious little about Indian massacres, labor strikes, floods, tempests, economic spikes and crashes that make up its picturesque past. By Linda McK…
By Linda McK Stewart Photos by Alecia J. Cohen, Travel Exploration In Morocco, through the wide French doors that open from my bedroom onto the stone balcony, floats a single, reedy voice, borne on the…
“The arts are the very heartbeat of humanity. They are the bones of what might, one day become a unifying world culture.” -Seward Johnson By Linda McK Stewart You step from the shade of a…