50 Places Every Literary Fan Should Visit [courtesy Flavorwire]
I have 3 questions for you, dear readers.
- How many places on this list have you visited?
- Where would you most like to visit?
- Is there a literary site (or sites) you think should have made the list?
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The list leaves out the rich literary history of California. Below is a short list of Northern California sites that should have made the list. Southern California also has a rich history and wealth of literary places to see.
Wolf House (my favorite) Glenn Ellen, CA (Jack London Historic State Park
Charles Schultz Museum, Santa Rosa, CA
Angels Camp, CA (Mark Twain – Jumping Frog)
Robert Lewis Stephenson State Park, Calastoga, CA (where he wrote and spent his honeymoon in 1880)
John Steinbeck House, Salinas, CA
Eugene O’Neill National Historic Site & Tao House, Danville, CA
Henry Miller Library, Big Sur, CA
That said – it was fun seeing the list and we should ALL visit the places on it and be inspired!
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What great additions! While I appreciate their need to keep the list manageable, it means that they had to ignore many, many great places in every state and country. I might have to do a poll sometime soon asking readers to contribute their fave literary places. It would be interesting to see what we could come up with.
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I have been to Green Gables, Prince Edward Island. Loved the Anne books. Nathaniel Hawthorne was left out – Salem, Ma. They listed the Poetry Foundation in Chicago as the only free-standing poetry center in the country – not true. The Poetry Center in Tucson, AZ, associated with the U of A was the first free-standing poetry center in the country, is still standing and active.
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What a great contribution of information, Judy. The poetry center info is really quite interesting. Thank you so much for sharing it. I will file it away in my brain.
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I am glad to contribute to your massive brain filing system, maedez. They also left Henry Wadsworth Longfellow out – Portland, Me. I believe. But I this is possibly a reflection of the times – those old writers were so long ago. Eventually we will only have recall of the writers from the 1950’s on.
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And I am glad that you do! I love Longfellow, by the way. I have a 100+ year old volume of his collected poems.
It hurts my heart that one day we may only recall writers from the 1950’s on. As it is, I do not think the average American goes back that far for much of anything. My personal knowledge goes back to Roman and Greek times, but I guess I am a nerdy anomaly. Sigh.
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No Keats house??
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That is a good one, too. They left out so many great places.
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