Category Archives: Travelers
Off Off Off Broadway? Try Dublin
THE half-dozen cocktail tables on the sidewalk by Grogans Pub were mobbed with after-work, pint-packing patrons, but my companion that evening, the American actor Harris Yulin, promised that the seats were worth the wait. “I love the gloaming in Ireland,” Mr. Yulin said, and indeed, once we snagged a spot, the long summer twilight of [...]
Vineyard Hopping, in Maryland?
ON a recent warm summer evening, well over a thousand people packed the lawns at Boordy Vineyards in Hydes, Md. Families tucked into picnics, toddlers ran freely, and couples and singles danced on the makeshift floor to a swing band pumping out oldies. But the main reason for the crowds was the wine.
Boordy, situated on [...]
An Oasis Off London’s Beaten Path
WITH its picnic tables and chipped folding chairs, Towpath feels as if it should be in a shack on the beach, not on the ground floor of a converted factory in East London.
Wine is served in juice glasses, and food is limited to bar snacks like almonds or radishes served with anchovies. During a recent [...]
As Life Spins On, the Midway Beckons
IN 1932, when the Great Depression was getting its second wind, a New York-based wire editor for the Associated Press published a novel about the agricultural shows he remembered from his childhood in a middle-of-nowhere Iowa town that doesn’t even exist anymore.
Phil Stong’s “State Fair” was a smashing success. Bleaker than the 1945 Rodgers & [...]