The Myth of Home

"All writing is travel writing, it just depends which direction you're going."

Thursday, June 25, 2015

REBOOT

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You can now find this blog at www.ericdlehman.org/themythofhome .
Tuesday, June 16, 2015

We Have Liftoff

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  Can't say enough about this awesome sight at the Essex Shad Bake this year. That is not a rocket ship, that is a coffee pot. Almos...
Friday, June 12, 2015

Overnight Hike on West Rock

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Amy and I hiked from our house all the way south on the Regicides Trail to New Haven. Some of the way we went on Baldwin Drive becau...
Monday, June 8, 2015

Essex Shad Bake

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Enjoyed a trip to the Essex Shad Festival at the Connecticut River Museum, sponsored by the local Rotary Club. Watched a demonstratio...
Monday, June 1, 2015

Removing Snakes

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We get a number of nonpoisonous snakes in our yard (black racers, garters, milk snakes), and while we enjoy them keeping the mouse and fr...
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Eric D. Lehman
I am a travel and history writer, and Director of Creative Writing at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut. I write fiction, travel stories, reviews, history shorts, and essays, which have been published in a wide variety of journals and magazines, from the International Henry Miller Journal to Antiques Trader. My books Bridgeport: Tales From the Park City, Hamden: Tales from the Sleeping Giant, A History of Connecticut Wine, Literary Connecticut, and A History of Connecticut Food are available from The History Press. The Insiders Guide to Connecticut, has been published by the Globe Pequot Press, and Afoot in Connecticut: Journeys in Natural History was published in Spring 2013 by Homebound Publications. My full-length biography, Becoming Tom Thumb: Charles Stratton, P.T. Barnum, and the Dawn of American Celebrity, was published in Fall 2013 by Wesleyan University Press. My two latest books are Homegrown Terror: Benedict Arnold and Burning of New London and a collection of short stories called The Foundation of Summer.
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