Tag: Birthplace

In July and August 2005, I spent two weeks in Ireland. Most of it was with a tour group via a public radio station, before I stayed at a Dublin hostel for three days. George Bernard Shaw’s birthplace I suspected that if I got a bed in a dorm room with 16 beds, I’d be with 15 co...

Haight-Ashbury is called the birthplace of the 1960’s counterculture movement, and the Castro District is the historical locus of San Francisco’s queer community. Today, as with much of San Francisco, these neighborhoods are suffering from gentrification. San Francisco is an excitin...