Travels to Toledo, Spain, with special focus on the history of El Transito Synagogue (ordered and financed by Samuel Ha-Levi in 1366) inspired by the architecture and on the reign and eventual murder of Peter I.

Memories of a lifetime of summers spent in coastal Maine. As a child staying with two sets of grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins, and now at the current family retreat on Deer Isle. Sailing, fishing, hiking in the woods, picnics, games. Wry observations and appreciation of the year round residents who can't be hired to do "work" but are prepared to "help out" on occasion.

The author was a docent at Taliesin in Spring Green, WI. She writes the history of Frank Lloyd Wright's family's - from their arrival in the U.S. from Wales until the present; the story of the wives who lived there; the fires and rebuilding; the architecture school founded there by Wright.

A well-researched paper on the subject of tea: the plant and its varieties, as a drink in China and other countries, and how the service in silver and porcelain china evolved. The author also talks about the role of tea in the Boston Tea Party, the international merchant trade in tea and porcelain and the rise of Thomas Lipton.

The author tells us tales of charming summers in the family's large, rambling, ever-growing beach cottage on the cliffs of Fish Lake, Wisconsin. A brilliant, clever, artistic, and somewhat dominating, but always fair and loving, grandmother is at the heart of these cherished memories of the writer.

A humorous piece describing domestic service over the years, highlighted by the author's housekeeper as a child, "Brucie". The reader is encouraged to stay out of the kitchen and avoid housecleaning.

The author writes a humorous paper about Elderhostel experiences with her husband, an originally skeptical participant. She relates wonderful experiences in Kingston, Canada, and Seabrook Island in the U.S, as well as a decidedly not-wonderful experience in Montreal at McGill University.

The life of the author's name: mistaken for male and chastised in college for not showing up for military drills. She begins in the "Dark Ages" with a history of her Norse ancestors and how they came to Orkney (Scotland). By the 8th century Orkney was a Viking stronghold, raiding Britain for 400 years. The essay includes the history and archeology of the Orkneys and stories of visits with her father who was born there. World War II stories.

The author writes about her life as a teacher and administrator 1960s - 1980s); about learning to teach (her admirable mentors: Nathaniel Stovers French (headmaster of North Shore Country Day School), George Eldredge (head of lower and middle schools), and about creating a new school: Graland at the Elgin Academy.

The subject of synchronicity as a springboard for humorous tales of coincidence. (re-read 5/10/2000)

The proposed affiliation in 1966-67 of Vassar College and Yale University which at first was secret and then caused a great stir. It is an account of the pros and cons of combining the two institutions and the eventual decision not to merge. The author was on the Board of Directors of Vassar and gives many insights into that tumultuous year.

As the title suggests, the town is New York City. The story is written from the perspective of visiting with pre-teen children, one or two at a time over a number of years, from traveling graciously by rail via the 20th-Century Limited to arriving at La Guardia. Informative and well written, sites visited are all around the town and the high drama is the summer trip when the city went totally dark in the Big Blackout of 1977.

Advances in archeological techniques and revisionist history (and anecdotal thoughts) of North American, pre-Columbian Indigenous Peoples.

An account of experiences while from the U.S. and living in England that constituted culture shock.

A study of the consorts of the eight rather obscure U.S. Presidents who served from 1836-1860. With the exception of the emotionally disturbed Jane Pierce, the ladies were involved in political strategy to a surprising extent and had the confidence and respect of their husbands regarding matters of state.

The Ford peace trip; to Europe, December 1915 to January 1916, from the letters of a Princeton senior who traveled on it, the author’s father. She added some background information.