Writing Travel

Dead end at Golconda

IOOF Cemetery, Golconda, Illinois

"Quack!" said Jerusha

I'm looking for this book or an anthology containing this poem. I've only recently found the author, Mildred Plew Merryman.

The poem's most memorable line (to me at least):

"Quack! said Jerusha. I like my taters smashed."

Some day, I'd like to use that quote in a restaurant review.

Amazon.com: "Quack!" said Jerusha: Books: Mildred Plew Merryman

Writer's Blog: Google Launches Shakespeare Site

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Writing on Travel, the WordPress edition

Writing on Travel

My parallel blog, not always in synch with this one.

Parlor Press: Writing Travel

Googling my domain name, writingtravel.com, I discovered "Writing Travel," a series by Parlor Press in Chapel Hill, NC.

Parlor Press: Writing Travel

Parlor Press is an independent publisher and distributor of scholarly and trade books in high quality print and digital formats.

Writing Travel

Series Editor
Jeanne Moskal
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Parlor Press announces a new series, "Writing Travel." We seek manuscripts related to the new field of travel studies. Proposals for books on any of the following are welcome:

• Original travel writing
• Editions of out-of-print travel books or previously unpublished travel memoirs
• English translations of important travel books in other languages
• Theoretical and historical treatments of ways in which travel and travel writing engage such questions as religion, nationalism/cosmopolitanism, and empire; gender and sexuality; race, ethnicity, and immigration; and the history of the book, print culture, and translation
• Biographies of significant travelers or groups of travelers (including but not limited to pilgrims, missionaries, anthropologists, tourists, explorers, immigrants)
• Critical studies of the works of significant travelers or groups of travelers
• Pedagogy of travel and travel literature and its place in curricula.