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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 [...]
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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.
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Hidden in Hungary, Treasures on the Vine
THE mold covered every surface of the cellar, coating the walls and ceilings in layers of loose black gauze. On one shelf, sheets of mold had grown so thick that it was nearly impossible to tell what was underneath, making the ancient wine bottles seem like ash-colored homunculi, an army of toy soldiers made from [...]
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Walking With the Herds in Kenya
I STOOD in a makeshift workshop in Njoro, a town in the Great Rift Valley of Kenya, as residents assembled bows and arrows for battle. On the hay-scattered lawn, at the end of a brown dirt road past abandoned wheat fields and eerily deserted houses, an earnest young man named Samuel showed me how to [...]