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Madeline L'Engle and a Wrinkle in Time in Albany, Oregon
I wanted to find Wrinkle in Time tours or Madeleine L'Engle tours because she died this week and her Newberry Award winning book A Wrinkle in Time is perhaps one of the best examples of travel writing there is. Okay, maybe that's stretching it, but seriously, isn't traveling through time and space a travel theme that appears over and over again?
At any rate, I was hoping to find a travel angle so I could pay Madeleine L'Engle a fitting tribute. That book is my all time favorite--a treasure--something beyond just a good read--a book that as a writer, and as a person on this planet with all its troubles and triumphs, I am inspired by. I don't know. Perhaps it's the theme of good overcoming evil. Or that in there is a place in the world for oddballs, and that listening to your internal compass is a worthy travel guide. Or is it that it's just so perfectly written?
I couldn't find a Wrinkle in Time tour that has anything to do with the book or with Madeleine L'Engle, but I did find an article on the historic town Albany, Oregon with a heading, "A Wrinkle in Time."
Albany, Oregon is featured as a weekend getaway destination on Via, a AAA companion publication. Here's what makes Albany worth going to: 700 historic buildings (the most in one place in Oregon); covered bridges (8 of them on a driving tour), tree shaded streets for strolling, and eating and shopping establishments that are geared towards retaining the flavor of small town charm. If you go there, think of Madeleine, even though, she has nothing to do with the place. The photo is of one of the covered bridges in Albany. Think of it as a metaphor for crossing over from one place to another, the known to the unknown--like traveling through space and time--like in A Wrinkle in Time. Just trying to make a connection here.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Catherine Sep 8th 2007 4:14PM
I re-read A Wrinkle in Time last winter and loved it then as much as I did when I was 11! I think it's quite appropriate for a travel blog. Thanks for covering it!
Barb Gant Sep 8th 2007 9:29PM
Wrinkle in Time is my favorite book too and for all the reasons you listed. I have given it to every niece and nephew born to us in the last 34 years just as soon as they could read it. It amazes me how often it comes into my mind in some everyday situation. As you so aptly put it, the "theme of good overcoming evil. Or that in there is a place in the world for oddballs, and that listening to your internal compass..., along with a different view on how angels might appear to us - all inspired me at 12 and continue to do so at 52. I had not heard of Madeline L'Engle's death and am glad to know of it. Thanks for the article.
cinnamongirl257 Sep 12th 2007 10:06AM
I was saddened to hear of L'Engle's death too-this was the first I'd heard of it. I read her books in fourth grade, and adored them then, and purchased them again in hardback as an adult to add to my collection. I re-read them often, and will do so again now in her honor and memory. I too have gifted my nieces and nephews with them, and find her writing as poignant and relevant today as I did forty years ago. The world has lost a great writer.