November 2007 - Posts

• The breast shrine

  We stopped at the breast shrine on the way to Nichinan City, sister city to Portsmouth, N.H. (See my story about Nichinan in the Nov. 11 New Hampshire Sunday News.) The Udo shrine was tucked into the cliffs of the southern Kyushu coastline. Our taxi passed Read More... Posted Saturday, November 10, 2007 3:54 AM by SherryWood | 3 Comments Filed under: News

• Tables and chairs

  Who would have guessed that during the 1960s, student protesters at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., spent a night on the table on which the Portsmouth Peace Treaty was signed? That's one of the tidbits I ran across while reporting Read More... Posted Saturday, November 03, 2007 5:39 AM by SherryWood | 0 Comments Filed under: News