Reports and Opinions By Larry Joseph Calloway
The word can be masculine or feminine depending on the individual being called a tourist. I love La Turista in my life. Since we met on a desert trail long ago, Patricia and I have been everywhere together: Mexico, The Dominican Republic, Belize, Chile, and Tierra del Fuego in Latin America. Baffin Island in the Arctic and Cape Horn near the antarctic. Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Malaya, Singapore, Bali and Borneo in Southeast Asia. Ireland with a choral group. Scotland by longboat. The Grand Canyon by raft and by foot. Backpacking in the Escalante canyons. And then we got married! (We took the honeymoon first.) I also have driven twice as a tourist through the American South, six weeks with Pat and a week with my daughter Maia. Here is a digest of my travelogs.
By LARRY JOSEPH CALLOWAY In late August of the saddest summer, speeding through the emptiness of Colorado’s South Park on the way to Denver to see “The Book … Read More
MY SISTER, who lives in New York and knows more than the usual number of professional actors, has never been to a fringe festival. So I sent her my review … Read More
How the Union army continued west after the Civil War. Reviews of “Lakota America” by Pekka Hamalainen and “West from Appomattox” by Heather Cox Richardson————————————————— The Dec. 5 (2020) New … Read More
By Larry Joseph Calloway © We went to Ireland in the summer of the political year 2016 with a group that often burst out in song. They sang … Read More
By LARRY JOSEPH CALLOWAY (C) Southern Arizona is known for some spectacular views of . . . the heavens. Kitt Peak, which we visited, has 25 big astronomical telescopes, most … Read More
Singapore political architect Lee Kwan Yew and his offhand critic, the American global anthropologist Clifford Geertz, needed to talk. About colonialism, democracy, culture. . . First of two essays on the possible city-state of the future.
What is culture? At first glance the amiable sales person was Chinese, but this was not China and we were dealing in English. I wanted a cultural experience, not the camera. Or so I thought.
(IN SEVEN PARTS ) By LARRY JOSEPH CALLOWAY As we, Patricia and I, began our drive in a Murano loaded with camping gear on a southern route from Crestone … Read More
At a restaurant called EAT in neon letters three feet high I ordered chicken fried steak and gravy, which is the essence of the official Oklahoma State Meal, created by … Read More
