“The Lure of the Open Road. Wartime wandering through the Eastern states by bicycle, truck, and riverboat 1944. By Thelma Popp Jones, 2007.”
I thoroughly enjoyed reading Thelma Popp Jones’ account of the adventures she and her friend Doris Roy enjoyed riding their bikes from New York to the Ohio and the Mississippi rivers and working as maids on a boat. (There’s a map and lots of photos, too.)
Link via Ask MetaFilter: A Vintage Bicycle Tour.
MeFi: How Radiolab is made.
Transom.org: Radiolab: An Appreciation by Ira Glass.
The Oberlin Review: Off the Cuff with Ira Glass.
Since it’s all over every newspaper, TV channel and other media anyway, I’ll just post a few links.
Fray: Missing Pieces
“On September 11, 2001, an unthinkable act of terrorism occured in New York City and Washington DC. It left holes in our lives, holes in the skyline, holes in our spirit. These are some of the stories of those who were there. These are our missing pieces.”
Two recent MetaFilter threads of relevance:
Ask MeFi: Help me briefly re-live 9/11 as it happened.
MeFi: Teaching 9/11.
The documentary 102 Minutes That Changed America is recommended in the first thread.
Zeit online: Thema: Zehn Jahre nach dem 11. September.
Ten years ago, I only posted a brief note because it was already afternoon here in Germany when the attacks happened and because André and I were glued to the online stream of BBC World News for the rest of the day. I elaborated a bit the following day.