November 2002

Bob Alter Book Presentation

November 27, 2002

Presentation of Bob Alter’s book Water for Pabolee: Stories about People and Development in the Himalayas.

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Woodstock School Meta-History

November 13, 2002

The reason (well, excuse, really) for this trip to Mussoorie was to get started on a project for Woodstock School. The school will celebrate its 150th anniversary in 2004, an occasion which calls for a book of some sort. Detailed histories have previously been published, covering the period up to 1983, and a glossy picture [...]

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On My Way to India, November 2002

November 11, 2002

Nov 11 – Milan Linate airport to Heathrow Paranoid traveller that I am, I ordered a taxi for 6 am. This got me to Linate, Milan’s city airport, at 6:15 – for an 8 am flight. Check-in was soon accomplished, and I planned to relax and have breakfast in the British Airways business lounge (still [...]

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What Happens When You’re Not a Native of Anywhere?

November 5, 2002

I’ve been living in Italy so long that I seem to be losing what minimal ability I ever had to pass for a “real” American. My accent is becoming indefinable, or so I guess. Some Americans have told me that I sound vaguely British, and a few years ago in Dallas, someone asked me if [...]

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