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runs brooklyn/brooklyn runs: July 16, 2006
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Half is better than none, right? Special Bonus Augusta Edition. So here I am in Augusta, Georgia. About two hours east of Atlanta), visiting with my parents for a mini-family reunion, when my sister Melanie asks if I want to go for a run. Now, I had previously committed to taking these four days off, a welcome (and probably physiologically advisable) respite from my Brooklyn explorations. But how could I resist the opportunity to run with my little sister? With whom, incidentally, I share a birthday.
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runs brooklyn/brooklyn runs: August 20, 2006
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Half is better than none, right? Special Saturday "Reads Brooklyn" Edition. Francis Morrone's An Architectural Guidebook to Brooklyn. And - my favorite - John Manbeck and Kenneth Jackson's The Neighborhoods of Brooklyn. On Yale University Press. All of these have proven invaluable in getting to know my way around the borough and in providing me with some very useful background and history on the city and the various neighborhoods I've been visiting. Ian McEwan, Atonement. And though its first-person, sem...