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Visit the Natchez Trace: Fall Hollow

By: Andra Watkins

On: March 27, 2015

In: Books, Make a Memory, Reading, Travel

I started my day at milepost 390. Asphalt and trees. A sliver of sky. My feet alternating on a cracked line of white.

But water beckoned. Fall Hollow. Milepost 391.9. The Natchez Trace. Tennessee.Continue Reading

Making Yankee Memories

By: Andra Watkins

On: March 26, 2015

In: Books, Make a Memory, Reading

While you’ve been thawing out from winter, I’ve been making Yankee memories with readers both seasoned and new.Continue Reading

The NY Times: Do Pictures Alter Our Memories?

By: Andra Watkins

On: March 25, 2015

In: Books, Make a Memory, Reading

In The New York Times story “Shutterbug Parents and Overexposed Lives,” Margaret Riegel complains about the firehose of visual imagery from which children these days drink. Do photographs BECOME their memories, overriding any real brain imagery surrounding a particular event?

Is that bad?Continue Reading