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When Montgomery was a child, she visited the Green Gables farm (so named for the dark green paint on the farmhouse gables, of course) owned by her cousins, the Macneill family. Entranced by the house and surrounding land, like the “Haunted Woods”, “Lovers Lane”, and “Balsam Hollow,” Montgomery based her Anne of Green Gables novels on the property. In the 1930s, the international popularity of the books led to the house and grounds being granted national park status, though in the interest of tourism the surrounding farmland has been developed into a fancy golf course.
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Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, but Frost did. This stone wall at Frost’s home in New Hampshire is where Frost would chat with his neighbor, Napoleon Guay, who told him ‘Good fences make good neighbors,’ as Frost fiddled with the boulders and loaves. If you’re behind on your reading for ninth grade English, check out the poem in question here.
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“I lived, for my early years, in the Shire,” Tolkien once told a friend, “in a pre-mechanical age.” According to the Telegraph UK, Birmingham, where Tolkien grew up, is filled with inspirations for his epic novels. The shadowy descriptions of the Old Forest were inspired in part by Moseley Bog, the marshy wilderness behind Tolkien’s childhood home, and the Great Mill is a reincarnation of Sarehole Mill, where as a child Tolkien and his younger brother frolicked, explored, and raised the ire of the miller, just like some young hobbits we know.
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Fort House, Dickens’ holiday estate (which has since his death actually been renamed Bleak House), where he famously finished his novel David Copperfield, was also the site of his inspiration for Bleak House. The house, particularly the view from the study, which overlooks the English Channel, is said to have inspired the novel, perhaps especially in gloomy lines like this: “Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city. Fog on the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights…”
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Does anyone know the address in Berlin of the former Hippel Cafe, where the Young Hegelians (or ‘The Free’) used to meet and carouse all night – Marx and Engels among them for a while in the late 1830s?
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'Abandoned Armenia''- a kind of appeal to the rescue of cultural heritage of the Armenian nation. Kobayr (in Քոբայր) - monastery, located near the town of Tumanyan, Lori Province, Armenia.
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Austria's Green Lake in the Hochschwab Mountains is a hiking trail in the winter. The snow melts in early summer and creates a completely clear lake. The lake has a grassy bottom, complete with underwater trails, park benches, and bridges. I want to see this!!!
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Balaa in Lebanon - I found the name of this place by using the Google Goggles on my iphone.
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A home in Santorini, a Greek island I must visit someday.
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The Appalachian Trail. I've always wanted to hike this with my husband. We will do it one day.
northern lights, norway /// i must see this someday.
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Paintings along the old city wall in Krakow where I used to sit and journal the different flavors of tourists. #krakow #poland #travel
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Bordighera - The Old Town #2 A few meters after the previous photo of Bordighera I found this other nice corner... how can't I take a photo of it?
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Monet's oil painting of Bordighera, a town on the Italian coast that I would love to wander through again.
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Arsinoe La Crapaude I remember this place...