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Linda Eve Diamond

LITERARY STROLLS

IOWA CITY: A UNESCO CITY OF LITERATURE

Sidewalk Book Stack At the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, we enjoyed the whole experience—the festival and all of Iowa City—where the streets are dotted with book sculptures...	Around the Bend ...illuminated with quotes on corner street lamps, and paved with literature...	Iowa Avenue Literary Walk This is the start of the Iowa Avenue Literary Walk. Posted here are some (but far from all) of the quotes made into artwork and embedded int the sidewalks. (Artist: Greg LeFevre) Let's stroll... :)
Solitary Confinement "We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!" Tennessee Williams	Poetry... "Poetry: boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words" Paul Engle	Right Word "Sometimes a word is found so right it trembles at the slightest explanation." Rita Dove
A Few Solid Points "And the color yellow regrets it was never green, and the east and the west long to trade places, and the shadow would like just once to come out on top." Marvin Bell	An Acquired Taste "Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste." Patricia Hampl	Careful! "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." Kurt Vonnegut
Friendly Observation "I have noticed before that there is a category of acquaintanceship that is not friendship or business or romance, but speculation, fascination." Jane Smiley	A Writer's Type of Bench	Book Bench Reader
The Beauty of Listening in Iowa City Reader enjoying "The Beauty of Listening" 😊	Artist at Work That's Jeff, carefully positioning (and repositioning) the book as I tried to get the shot on a windy day. :)	Spirits at Play "Actors between plays are like ghosts looking for bodies to inhabit." Gail Godwin
Lonely "It is true, It is true then, I am a lonely human being." Ray Young Bear	The Meadow "Posted: The history of the meadow goes like this. No one owns it. No one ever will." James Galvin	Love "If you love me you will, he said. And because she loved him, she did." Jeannette Eyerly
From the book, "Shoeless Joe" “Three years ago at dusk on a spring evening, when the sky was a robin’s-egg blue and the wind as soft as a day-old chick, I was sitting on the veranda of my farm home in eastern Iowa when a voice very clearly said to me, ‘If you build it, he will come.’” W.P. Kinsella ********************* This was from the book, "Shoeless Joe," which was made into the film, "Field of Dreams." The movie set for this was just a few hours away, so we took a little side trip... *********************	Field of Dreams Dyersville, Iowa	Dream Games People come from all over to toss the ball and run the bases at The Field of Dreams. (On some days, they also have games, and you can watch players walk out of the cornfield and play.)
Dream Catcher Little Girl Catching a Ball in the Field of Dreams	View from the Baseball Diamond Field of Dreams	Jeff Disappearing into the Cornfield Field of Dreams
Shoeless Little Bear Field of Dreams	Jeff found a baseball... ...our good-luck souvenir :)	Looking Up Field of Dreams
Pianos Around Town ...back to Iowa City, where poetry and music fill the streets, and public pianos invite anyone to walk up and play.	Open Book Iowa City	Bookshop Bear We met this dapper bear at Iowa City's Haunted Bookshop.
Prairie Lights This landmark bookstore features fantastic readings and events.	Street Scene Walking down an Iowa City street, we happened into this little storybook mural. From there, we walked off into the sunset and lived happily ever after. :)

JACK LONDON STATE HISTORIC PARK

Sun Shining on the Cottage with Jeff :) Glen Ellen, CA	Beauty Ranch	Sherry Barn This was one of the barns, originally built for a winery, then converted to a stable.
	Jack London's Office
Clothesline Dripping w/ Inspiration To accommodate late-night and early morning writing hours, he set up this little sleeping porch by his office. Over where he slept, he hung a clothesline pinned with notes, writings and letters.	View from Sleeping Porch	Garden Reflections
Garden View	Chairman's Piano Jack London's wife, Chairman, played this 1910 Steinway, on display in The House of Happy Walls museum building.	Ragtime Jazz at House of Happy Walls Musicians still fill the House of Happy Walls with music from that Steinway.
Ragtime This was during full afternoon of fabulous musicians and entertainers during the Wine County Ragtime Festival.	Grave Site Jack London's ashes are buried with his wife's, under this volcanic rock, overlooking The Valley of the Moon.

THE O. HENRY HOUSE & MUSEUM

O. Henry Home & Museum Austin, Texas	O. Henry: Original Slacker “The story of a Renaissance man & his freedom from all cares.”	Favorite Writing Desk
Retired to a Sunny Corner	Inkwells	O. Henry Portrait
The Saturday Evening Post		Letters The museum offers books filled with stories, drawings, and countless letters creatively asking for money.
Lots and Lots of Letters "Could you without inconvenience cash this enclosed check for $10?" ... Then the PS - No check enclosed. :)

HEMINGWAY HOUSE & MUSEUM

Hemingway Home & Museum Key West, Florida This album has photos of Hemingway's house, studio, and gardens in Key West (but most focus on the cats). :)	The Writing Studio	Portrait with Cat (in the studio) Hemingway loved cats.
Cat Naps The Hemingway House is home to dozens of cats. He was a cat lover, and he especially loved polydactyl (six-toed) cats, which are thought to be good luck.	Snow White His first polydactyl cat was named Snow White. Many of the cats at Hemingway House are her descendants.	Spencer Tracy Each cat is named for someone famous. Meet Spencer Tracy.
Emily Dickinson	Joan Crawford	Archibald MacLeish Playing with Little Bear (:3
Cat House Cats had the run of the big house and also their own special houses throughout the beautiful trees and flower gardens.		Kitten Curtains (in kitchen)
Memento When his favorite bar was moving, Hemingway took home this little memento—a urinal. He said he'd pissed away so much of his money there, he wanted to keep it. His wife beautified the garden eyesore...	Fountain ...by pairing it with this old Spanish olive jar and making it into a fountain for the cats. :)

CHARLES SCHULZ MUSEUM

L. B. & Me with Charlie Brown Santa Rosa, CA (If you don't know our friend, L.B., you can find his bio below...) 🐻	Peanuts Tile Mural This massive mural was composed of 3,588 Peanuts comics reproduced on 2 x 8 inch ceramic tiles. Artist: Yoshiteru Otani	Peanuts Tile Mural (Close-Up)
Jeff - Reading the Comics	L.B. Visiting Snoopy's House	Jeff, L.B. & Me with Snoopy!
Schroeder & L.B.	Woodstock's Bird Shower '' '''''' ''' ''' '' ''''' '''''	65 Year Celebration - 2015
	Charlie Brown's Christmas Tree... & "The Fir Tree" by Hans Christian Anderson with L.B. (:3	Early Animation Gallery
Part of the Early Animation Gallery	Part of the Early Animation Gallery	Happiness is... Writing your own story.
Snoopy's Home Ice Skating Rink	In the Sculpture Garden	Sculpture This beautiful, romantic sculpture was created as a special gift for Charles Schulz and his wife.

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