THE DANCE OF THE GIGLIO

January 27, 2010

By the 1930s, the Italian population in East Harlem numbered 80,000. Once the largest Italian community in New York City, the neighborhood was bounded by East 119th Street, the East River, East 99th Street, and 3rd Avenue. So far as religion was concerned, the new residents practiced a form of Catholicism that incorporated folk traditions [...]

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EAST HARLEM MURALS CELEBRATE THE SPIRIT OF PLACE

January 26, 2010

If you have been traveling, stay home. Annharriet Buck (The Golden Door) The Heritage Traveler has decided to take the above advice — at least for the next several posts. Instead of traveling far afield, we are going to highlight a New York City neighborhood that’s about three and a half miles from my apartment. [...]

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DON’T LOSE YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS: HERE’S HOW TO BACK THEM UP

January 23, 2010

Almost all of us — at least the people I know — dread hearing the words “don’t forget to back it up.”  It seems like too much trouble or we don’t know how or it takes too much time.  But Heritage Traveler, you’ve just completed an awfully lot of work. So since you’ve spent your [...]

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FIX YOUR PHOTOS THE QUICK AND EASY WAY

January 21, 2010

Now that you’ve taken care of scanning your photographs, it’s time to think about how to bring faded — even damaged — photos back to life.  You are going to do this in three stages. First, you will open the scanned picture using an image editing program. Second, you will fix the picture. Third, you [...]

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10 TIPS FOR RESCUING YOUR (ALMOST) RUINED PHOTOGRAPHS

January 21, 2010

For many of us, our travel photographs are like the lyrics of the 1970s song ‘The Way We Were.’ They’re nothing but misty water-colored memories on bedraggled paper … scattered pictures … faded impressions of the far away places we’ve visited and the smiles we gave to those we loved. Well, here’s the good news! [...]

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TENNESSEE’s APPALACHIAN QUILT TRAIL

January 19, 2010

The Appalachian region of the United States is rich in tradition. Known worldwide for crafts and music, the people of Appalachia are fiercely independent. Isolated mountain settlements preserve the spirit of place and ensure that cultural authenticity is passed from generation to generation. It is a perfect destination for the “slow traveler” — or for [...]

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THE INQUISITVE TRAVELER #2

January 16, 2010

Today we’re going to switch gears and find out what else has been happening this week that might interest the inquisitive heritage traveler. Haiti is important, but it will be a while before the tap taps start to clog the roads again. By the way, if you want to see some gorgeous pictures of tap [...]

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WHAT DO YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT HAITI?

January 15, 2010

If I was fed up with network and cable news sources yesterday, I’m really fed up today. I think I’ve seen Sanjay Gupta and the 15 day old baby 25 times: not just on CNN, but on every other newscast also. Now don’t get me wrong. I think that what Sanjay did is terrific, but [...]

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HELP HAITI NOW

January 14, 2010

Like many of you, I’ve been glued to cable news, anxious to find out what’s really going on in Haiti, waiting to see promised aid arriving.  I’ve found it quite challenging to figure out who will do the best job with my money. I’ve also been bored by the film clips repeated over and over, [...]

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GET OUT YOUR CHECKBOOK AND ROLL UP YOUR SLEEVES

January 13, 2010

I’m finding it difficult to write about heritage travel this morning with so much loss of life and livelihood. However, it’s important to acknowledge that Haiti has an extremely rich heritage that has also been devastated and is also at risk. This is important because heritage lifts and sustains the human spirit and the Haitians [...]

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