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TMN Editor Erik Bryan is living the dream. He grew up in Florida, but he’s from all over. He likes playing chess, making cocktails, smarting off, and not freezing to death in Brooklyn, where he currently resides.
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Realpolitiking
A Heritage of Hate
Why it’s the duty of every white American to burn a Confederate flag.
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City Fields
Train Operator
The city of New York employs nearly half a million citizens, more than any other municipality in the country. We decided to speak with some of those employees about their...
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City Fields
Teacher
The city of New York employs nearly half a million citizens, more than any other municipality in the country. We decided to speak with some of those employees about their...
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Lunch Poems
J. Y. Strain
J. Y. Strain lives and works in Bloomington, Ill. This poem is dedicated “for my brother, regarding his ride.” I’d Like to See You at Thanksgiving ...
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Lunch Poems
Michael Loughran
“Year of the Grim Light” I was using fewer and fewer words, and then I was using none. Not even a running gag with the dog, or...
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New York's Roadside Attractions
Prison Ship Martyrs Monument
I’d first heard about the site on my outing to St. Paul’s Church in the Bronx. Frank, the lecturer at St. Paul’s that day,...
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New York's Roadside Attractions
Fraunces Tavern Museum
Today the site is still very much a functioning tavern, as I discovered upon arriving last Thursday and being hustled through one dining hall and a whiskey bar by a...
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New York's Roadside Attractions
Floyd Bennett Field
During his freshman year at Kansas State in 1972, he joined the Air Force ROTC and took the Air Force Officers Qualifying Test, which he nearly aced. Then during a physical...
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New York's Roadside Attractions
Flushing Meadows-Corona Park
My friends Bex and Todd had shown interest in going to the park, so we decided to meet up there in the afternoon. It was a lovely day fit for...
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New York's Roadside Attractions
Edgar Allan Poe Cottage
Two Sundays ago I trekked out to the Bronx to visit the Edgar Allen Poe Cottage. (Although Poe was better known for bouncing between Richmond and Baltimore, he spent several...
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New York's Roadside Attractions
Wyckoff Farmhouse and Queens County Farm Museums
When I was in the fifth grade my class took a trip to a historical farm museum in Tifton, Ga., called Agrirama, a fully functioning re-creation of a Reconstruction-era sugar...
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New York's Roadside Attractions
Van Cortlandt House Museum
I got in touch with a couple of friends, Meghan (who accompanied me to Historic Richmond Town) and Christine, a Roadside Attractions newbie. I told them about my plans to...