HeyJaredFine Books, Rare Travels
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Kathleen Louise Cina Olson (opens the original)
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I will be going offline for the foreseeable future. This past Friday evening my mother suffered what we believe was a cerebral hemorrhage. She passed at around 6 a.m. Saturday morning on what was her 81st birthday.She will be missed by all of us and leaves a vibrant legacy of four granddaughters.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="450" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BNov!,w
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It’s been a year since I turned the keys of Craig Olson Books’ retail space and about 4,000 books over to the new Old Professors. I wrote about it here in my initial Substack post last February.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MmWN!,f_auto,q_auto:good,
Wendell Berry (opens the original)
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I lost a friend and mentor August 31 when farmer, writer, conservationist, and activist Wendell Berry died at the age of 92.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="447.47625" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eHCj!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_
The Gloria Bachman & Abraham Wilson House (opens the original)
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If you’re an architecture aficionado – and I say this for myself alone but suspect it is the same for others with this affliction – you always keep a catalog of places and buildings buzzing in the back of your head.Heading to Tucson? Have to see San Xavier Del Bac.Seattle? Lunch in the Space Needle.San Antonio? The Alamo.Bentonville, Arkansas? Frank Lloyd Wright’s Bachman-Wilson House, of course.A quick step back.Last year, when we were planning a trip to see our
The Toufic & Mildred Kalil House (opens the original)
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I first laid eyes on the Toufic and Mildred Kalil House in May of 1992. I was riding the shuttle bus from the Currier Museum of Art to their newly acquired Isadore and Lucille Zimmerman House from last week’s post.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal"
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