Contents JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2010
DEPARTMENTS
ALL ABOARD
8 Here’s to Excellence
DETOUR
24 North to Freedom
Retracing the Underground Railroad’s
stop along the Northeast Corridor.
28
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
All Those Gypsy
Dancers
The Great White Way has the best year
in its history.
32
BUSINESS CLASS
You Can Go Your
Own Way
The entrepreneurial spirit is alive and
well in these hard economic times.
68
CAFÉ CHATTER
A Spoonful of Sugar
Sometimes a small bite of (more than
one) dessert is all you need.
76
COCKTAIL
Wine Unbottled
From oak casks to eco-friendly cartons,
winemakers are thinking out of the
bottle.
88
FINAL STOP
Why I Love ...
Baltimore
Olympian Michael Phelps on life in
Charm City.
Contributors, page 6 • Puzzles, page 86
Station/Route maps, page 84
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Above: The American icon Harriet Tubman.
Left: The Vermont Ski Museum.
Starting a business in a recession may seem
to go against conventional thinking, but there
are upsides to a downturn. — PAGE 32
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FIRST CLASS
Let’s hear it for the
good stu; at the
Berkeley Springs
International Water
Tasting • Harrisburg,
Pa., turns 150 • The
party train’s next
stop is Mardi Gras •
Get a Wallaroo hat
for winter • Meet the
Women of the Congo
• A giant of jazz •
Promises to keep for
the new year ...
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CITY GUIDE
Da Vinci does
Baltimore • Edgar
Allan Poe scares up
another birthday •
Boston Bruins are
back • Georgia
O’Kee;e at the
Whitney • Snoopy,
the famous American
fighter pilot • Phila-
grafika • Newport
Winter Festival •
Anthony Bourdain in
Providence • Man Ray
in D.C. ...
UP TO SPEED
Call him Asher
Lev • Living on the
edge of Dinotopia •
Valentine’s Day at the
Opera Ball • Cartoons
and caricatures •
Meet Young Fran-
kenstein • Maryland
is In the Heights •
Terra cotta warriors in
the capital • Reliving
the Lincoln-Douglas
debates • Rhode
Island is coming up
flowers ...
