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...weeks a year, but what if that's all you can do for 52 weeks a year?" Howells says. If your vacation town is boarded up in the winter, you may find that the quiet life doesn't stimulate you enough, or that your summer cottage isn't so quaint when the heat doesn't work...
...town's often photographed square, with its flowering magnolias, historic buildings, quaint restaurants and well-regarded bookstore, won Sprague instantly. Tired of braving the cold winters, he, 75, convinced Sparks, 66, a Northwestern University art historian, that they could ease into a warm retirement if she taught at the University of Mississippi. The couple also wanted to live in a place where they could both keep learning, and the university--a five-minute drive from their large modern wood and brick home--offered free classes to anyone over 65 and "brown bag" lectures on a wide variety of topics...
While retro may be stylish, antique quaint and archaic classy, I lay claim to none of the above. Instead, I can only call myself confusingly anachronistic--infected with nostalgia for bygone eras that were never mine to call...
While retro may be stylish, antique quaint and archaic classy, I lay claim to none of the above. Instead, I can only call myself confusingly anachronistic--infected with nostalgia for bygone eras that were never mine to call...
Last week the quaint square around the courthouse was jammed with satellite trucks and bristling with security. Dozens of uniformed police officers accompanied jurors, and plainclothes Texas Rangers with Secret Service-style earphones encircled the witness stand, even as police helicopters swept the skies. And, of course, no one could get into the courtroom without going through those machines. Local officials feared a repeat of the marches that rocked the town after the death of James Byrd Jr. last summer. On the day of his funeral, both the Ku Klux Klan and the New Black Panther Party marched...