Archive for December 12th, 2006

Opening the Conversation

I notice from my statistics page that people are actually viewing this weblog already. And to all of you who’ve dropped by, welcome! I’ve not publicized Panorama of the Mountains in the slightest. I view it as a “soft launch” so that if I post for a couple weeks I can just [...]

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Book Review: Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties

Welcome to the first edition of “What I Am Reading Right Now,” which I plan to have as a regular feature of Panorama of the Mountains.
The Roaring Twenties are a romantic period. Jazz. Flappers. Consumption of vast quantities of alcohol despite (or perhaps because of) Prohibition. Americans living in Paris on [...]

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