Book destinations

[mamabookworm61]

I'm going to steal a thread idea from another book forum I recently visited. I'm wondering what "book destinations" folks have visited--pilgrimages to the homes/graves of favorite authors? To the scenes of favorite novels? A couple of years ago, I visited the village founded in the 1840s by author Caroline Kirkland. She and her husband founded a village on the U.S. frontier--Pinckney, Michigan. Kirkland wrote a very amusing, satiric book, a fictionalized account of her experience as a cultured easterner on the frontier (A New Home, Who'll Follow? ). What a hoot--Pinckney is still a sleepy little village, though perhaps not for long, as the surrounding area becomes developed. What have been your favorite literary destinations?

 

[mehastings]

I've been to Poe's grave and all of the Shakespear properties (remember, I'm an American we don't go to those on school field trips). As a kid, my little brother went and knocked on Avi's door, who proceded to invite him and my mom in to see his writing studio. That's about all I can think of.

 

[bobbyburns]

when I was in vienna in a couple years ago, I went to a cafe that sigmund freud used to frequent.