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The Lady of Shalott

If it was the fall of 1981 - then I was 13. We were visiting Boston as a family; my older sister was looking at colleges. We - as good tourists do - went to Harvard Square, and to the Harvard Co-op. This image was on the front of a bin of posters, dorm room decor at its finest. I was stopped dead in my tracks. No one noticed but me - my family walked inside the store... It was that feeling that time was slowed, and all sound and motion around you has ceased to affect you. I was enchanted. I had no idea who William Holman Hunt was, neither had I ever heard of "The Lady of Shalott".

Is your passport in order? Challenge of Travel preview (Part II)

Tomorrow is the big reveal - Erin's Challenge of Travel. Yesterday I shared information on famous German figures in science, literature, music. Today - the arts.

A to Z: background

( Sorry. I was sick last Friday. So this is the first of two "B" entries. I will catch up soon - since I have so many letters and only so many weeks...)

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