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Frederic Leon Four Seasons @ Philadelphia
February, 22, 2005: Philadelphia Museum of Art While my friend and I were waiting to see the Dali exhibition, we stumbled across an artist that neither one of us had ever heard of before, Belgian Symbolist, Leon Frederic. The first image featured here is from Frederic’s “Four Seasons: Fall”. The series portrays the four seasons [...]
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The Best of Savannah Georgia
This feature was originally posted on March 3, 2007 at 1:42 am Frenchtowner.com and The Hunterdon Bucks Blog aren’t just about Frenchtown, Hunterdon or Bucks County anymore. We do have to go on vacation sometimes, and for the past two years, we have spent the first week of January in a much warmer place than [...]
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Visiting Zeus in Philadelphia . Philly Museum of Art
February 22, 2005 One of my favorite things about visiting Philadelphia is visiting Zeus. I come back over and over again to stare up at him and admire his beauty. Zeus is the central figure on the pediment of the Northern frieze of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The sculptures were done by C. Paul [...]
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New Orleans Trip . Restaurants and Reviews
This Story was originally posted on February 6, 2005. Day One: Wendy’s – Atlanta Airport and Marigny Brasserie – New Orleans Louisiana When we arrived in New Orleans, we had not gotten any sleep the night before, and had only eaten an incredibly tasteless and cardboard like breakfast sandwich at the airport in Atlanta from [...]
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New Orleans Travel . Photo Blog . 1
This is a photo-documentary of our journey from Frenchtown to Newark, New Jersey to New Orleans, Louisiana to Dothan Alabama, to Panama City, Florida, to St. Augustine Florida and back to Frenchtown. There is something true about the old saying: “You can never go home again”. Anytime that I consider a trip back to LA, “Lower Alabama”, where I was born, [...]
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Getaways This Weekend in NJ: Cape May Food & Wine Festival
This weekend, September 16, 17, 2006, Cape May, NJ will hold it’s 10th Annual Cape May Food & Wine Festival. The festival has been honored as “a Top 100 Event in North America.” It all starts Saturday, Sept. 16, with a visit to the award-winning Cape May Winery & Vineyard, home of blue ribbon-quality veriferas, [...]
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Learning to Love or Hate New Hope
New Hope X-Heart There has been a lot of hand-wringing in town recently about Frenchtown becoming another New Hope. This paranoid fear of success pops up in conversations in public and private forums all the time. Some residents are afraid of the traffic and noise that will follow if our little town gets past it’s [...]
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Road Trip: Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
Let’s see…where shall we go? Just for a night. Maybe two. Let’s just get in the car and go! [ad] Excerpt from the original article by Linda Pernice Kavanagh: New York? Been there. Boston? Done that. How ’bout Nantucket? It’s too crowded during the summer and too quiet throughout the off months. We [...]
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New York City Travel Blog: Part 7, The Best NYC Dining – Gotham Bar and Grill
Review:NYC’s Best Restaurant: Gotham Bar and Grill, Greenwich Village, New York City Our whirlwind tour of New York City ends on a very high note. For that we have THE GOTHAM BAR AND GRILL to thank. Our experience with Gotham goes back 20 years. For my partner and chef friend, Gotham was the creator of [...]