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Dame Agatha's Digs. Agatha Christie fans can visit Greenway, the mystery writer's beloved summer home in Devon, England, which is now open to the public. The bedrooms, drawing room and dining rooms of the house that inspired Dead Man's Folly have been carefully restored to their 1950s state by the National Trust. If you'd like to stay overnight, you can even rent one of two cottages on the grounds. Greenway Road, Galmpton, near Brixham...
...master planning team who describes the campus as having “a fine texture or network of circulation that provides a variety of ways to get to the same place.”In terms of open space, the new master plan will also have a greenway, which will run through the neighborhood and extend to near the Charles, and allow for the construction of several small parks—moves that Vergason says will “bring a significant measure of nature back into Allston.” But less glamorously, the plans also take heed...
...addition to the greenway and the academic commons, Harvard’s planners also promised to improve transportation and increase permeability through the neighborhood by creating new streets and paths for pedestrians...
...most part, in other words, these people were not horrible. But the conditions they faced often were. In Parramatta, by the 1840s, a Francis Greenway-designed factory built to accommodate 300 was holding 1,200 women, who worked from dawn to dusk on tasks that included stone breaking, spinning, needlework and laundry. Unlike their male counterparts, they were spared the lash. But they were not spared solitary confinement or the indignity of being gagged or having their head shaved for serious misconduct. Parramatta hosted Australia's first act of industrial defiance in 1827, when hundreds of convict women rioted over...
...they also realize that they are somehow different: no longer completely from either the West or the East. Having grown used to "the heat, the jungle, the loneliness," of life in Hong Kong, they are still kept at a distance and referred to as "gwaimui, white ghost girl." Greenway, herself an American who spent parts of her childhood in Hong Kong, deftly captures this dynamic, as the girls gain access to aspects of local culture, often through their amah, that those in their parents' generation would be unable to enter...