archives: Postcards From Home
Growing Up in East Germany: Reflections 20 Years Later
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Matador Trips co-editor Carlo Alcos shares some of his wife's fond - and not so fond - memories from the 80s. More »
My Hometown: St Alban’s, Newfoundland
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Candice Walsh shares her thoughts on going home to St Alban's, where everyone knows everyone, and life is lived without boundaries. More »
My Hometown in 500 words: Oakland, CA
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"It’s heartbreaking to love a city like Oakland, but looking at all these faces, I realize why I do." More »
My Hometown In 500 Words: Las Vegas, NV
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I’ve seen my grandfather throw his social security money away every month for the last decade of his life. When he died his wife discovered winning More »
My Hometown In 500 Words: Plant City, FL
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Aging beauty queens sit at round tables, faces frozen, beside their fawning royal court and their fattened quarterbacks. More »
My Hometown in 500 Words: Westport, MA
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"The sons and daughters of these Swamp Yankees continue to take care of their own and honor their stubborn ancestry. . ." More »
My Hometown in 500 Words: Lagos, Nigeria
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"'You get Punch? How about Guardian?' my mom yells out in pidgin English to a newspaper vendor racing alongside the car in traffic." More »
My Hometown in 500 Words: San Jose
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"For the first time, I believe that this was once a valley of fruit trees, and before that, a plain of oaks, groomed by fire." More »
My Hometown in 500 Words: Virginia Beach, VA
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"The seven-day tourists of the south end were coming or going and I had a notebook and a similar intention to go somewhere. " More »
My Hometown in 500 Words: Bristol, New Hampshire
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"It was the kind of town you'd drive through while singing to your radio, completely unaware that a population had just passed." More »
My Hometown in 500 Words: Ghilarza, Italy
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On the day of my departure my parents’ main worry is that I can't taste everything on menu they had prepared for me. More »
My Hometown in 500 words: Bedford, MA
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"Bedford, cruelly surrounded by so many places of interest, offers little more than a good school system and the easily ignored legacy of having the f More »
My Hometown in 500 Words: Noble County, Ohio
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"The textures and colors of the land bring me back to this local place, this base layer of home that I simply can't peel away." More »
My Hometown in 500 words: Wasilla, Alaska
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Wasilla is more than just the biggest political story of the season. More »
