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Earlier this month, I spent a few days in NYC to see four Broadway shows and to see the Belle Da Costa Greene exhibit at the Morgan Library and Museum. I took the opportunity to check out some other favorite sights like Grand Central Terminal, Central Park, the New York City Public Library (NYPL) Main …
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Ever since I read the book “Palindrome” by Stuart Woods in high school I’ve wanted to visit Cumberland Island. While the book is fiction, the setting of Greyfield Inn and Cumberland Island is not. The book describes a private island, an inn run by a storied family, and cottages throughout the island owned by the …
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As I turn 47 in a few weeks ago, I set out to find the fountain of youth that Ponce de Leon was in search of almost 500 years ago. I found myself in St. Augustine, Florida, the United States’ oldest settled (by White people) city, but never found the fountain of youth. Good thing …
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I visited Hearst Castle as the summer of 2007 started. I had just finished MBA school, and would start a new job a week later, and took my first solo trip ever, up and down the California coast. Hearst Castle was on my must-see list after watching countless episodes of America's Castles on A&E. Coincidentally, …
As Women's History Month wraps up, it seemed an appropriate time to think about the trip to Hearst Castle that I took earlier this month and the woman behind the castle: Julia Morgan. Morgan was the first registered female architect in California, and that’s no small feat; Even today, women only make up 27% of …
My maternal grandmother, Swarajyam Amaraneni, who was like a second mother to me, passed away on December 27, 2022. As we did when my grandfather, her husband of 40 years passed away in 1990, we took her ashes back to India, to the village where they lived when they were raising their children, and where …
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Sravanthi Meka 