Rome Antics

Rome AnticsA pigeon carrying an important message takes the reader on a unique tour through Rome. As we follow the path of this somewhat wayward bird, we discover that Rome is a place where past and present live side by side. It is a city that has been recycling itself for two thousand years, but unlike a museum, Rome displays its remarkable history without respect for chronology. A new electric bus travels over cobblestone streets just ten feet above the floor

and the everyday women whose names are lost to history

with descriptions

and even in the modern era it has encouraged wars of conquest and triggered frantic gold rushes

Everything about them is just right

cedar-shingled lakeside retreat

and is guided to sublime passion and possible redemption by his mad wife

and a New York book and movie for every month

through lively text

fill-in-the-blank challenge that encourages participation

in operation since 1914

Determined to free them

Here are DeFord Bailey’s Hohner Marine Band harmonica and Maybelle Carter’s arch-top Gibson