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We own a 1975 GMC Sierra Grande 15 in Maine and a 1986 Chevrolet Custom Deluxe 10 in West Texas. Also a pair of 1997 Volvo 850 wagons. Average age in the fleet is 28 years--we're recycling. I've published 3 novels: THE LAW OF DREAMS (2006), THE O'BRIENS (2012), and CARRY ME (2016). Also 2 short story collections: NIGHT DRIVING(1987) and TRAVELLING LIGHT (2013). More of my literary life is at www.peterbehrens.org I was a Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study for 2012-13. I'm an adjunct professor at Colorado College and in the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte. In 2015-16 I was a Fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The Autoliterate office is in Car Talk Plaza in Harvard Square, 2 floors above Dewey Cheatem & Howe. SUBSCRIBE TO THE AUTOLITERATE DAILY EMAIL by hitting the button to the right.

Friday, March 3, 2023

Mazda wheelbarrows, and more Francis Parkman

Now, that's a wheelbarrow. Perfect for 90% of everyday truck tasks. Right-hand drive might get a little spooky on I-90 but it's fine for Beacon Hill, where AL spotted the worky little Mazda flatbed/pickup. Chestnut Street, just a block down from Francis Parkman's house. 
(Here's another Mazda wheelbarrow, the 2200; and photographer Bill Burelson's 1994 Mazda pickup. The Ford Courier was a rebranded Mazda truck.)
Don't know if you caught our post on Parkman yesterday, which started with a Ferrari in St Louis and after some circuitous routing, somehow concluded with a link to Parkman's multi-volume 19th c. opus, France and England in North America...
Biking back to Cambridge today from teaching a class in the Theater District, I looked up Parkman's house on Chestnut Street...

...and then, with weird synchronicity, while wandering in the depths of the Widener Library at Harvard, searching for something else, I stumbled upon-

-an ancient set of volumes comprising Parkman's France and England in North America, more readily available in the 2-volume Library of America edition published in the 1980s.

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