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178 FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

Although 2020 marked the 200th anniversary of the
birth of legendary, world-famous nurse Florence
Nightingale--who once helped battle a London cholera
epidemic--it's ironic that another pandemic, the world-
wide COVID-19 crisis, delayed celebrations.

182 CHECK POINT CHARLIE

It was July 1969, the height of the Cold War. I was
on the east side of Checkpoint Charlie, looking
across the Berlin Wall to the West and freedom. I
wasn't a refugee, I wasn't a spy coming in from the
cold. I was just a kid trying to buy a benzinpumpe.

186 OVER THE SEA TO SKYE
We stand on the cobbly beach grabbing our hats and
clutching our jackets. The wind is relentless. The
rain, too. But this beach is on a peninsula called
Sleat, so what should we expect? Even if Sleat is pro-
nounced “slate,” it sure doesn’t mean “sunshine.”

196 On April 16th this past year, the unthinkable hap-
THE SHOW MUST GO ON

pened. Peninsula Players – Door County, Wiscon-
sin’s oldest, largest, and best-known outdoor
theatre – announced that it was cancelling its entire
2020 season.

Judy & Len Garrison

JudyistheeditorofGeorgiaConnectorMagazineandPeachStatePublicationsaswellasa
freelancewriter/photographer/travelerfornational/internationalpublicationsincludingDeep
SouthMagazine,IntervalMagazine,SimplyBuckhead,USAirwaysMagazine,SouthernHospitality
Travelerandhasabi-monthlybloginBlueRidgeCountry’sonlineedition.SheandLenownSeeing
Southern,L.L.C.,adocumentaryphotographycompany.

Margie Goldsmith

Margie Goldsmith is a NYC-based author, writer and photographer who has explored 140
countries on seven continents. She has won 85 awards including the prestigious Lowell
Thomas Travel Journalism Gold Award. She has written over 1,000 articles for Robb Report,
Travel + Leisure, Business Jet Traveler, American Way, Hemispheres, Wall Street Journal, Globe and
Mail.

Brian Clark
Brian Clark is a Madison, Wisconsin-based writer and photographer who likes to ski,
kayak, scuba dive, bicycle and sail as often he can. A former staff writer for The San Diego
Union-Tribune, he now contributes to a number of publications.

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