Category: Cities

  • Caffè Reggio — A Morning in Greenwich Village

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    Jim Garrett
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    I turned the corner and there I was… Caffè Reggio, the oldest coffee shop in Greenwich Village having opened in 1927. My first day in NYC and my daughter was needing to sleep in due to having just come off a 12-day stretch of Emergency Department night shifts … so it was time for a…

  • Paris, With Hemingway as My Guide

    Paris, With Hemingway as My Guide

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    Jim Garrett
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    There are books you read and set aside. And then there are books that change your itinerary. A few days before my family and I left for Paris, I finished A Moveable Feast — Ernest Hemingway’s memoir of his years as a young, nearly penniless writer living in the city in the 1920s. I’d been…

  • A Drink to Gather Around

    A Drink to Gather Around

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    Jim Garrett
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    “Good morning, Tennessee Jim.” I hear it every time I walk through the door at Caffè Vittoria on Hanover Street in Boston’s North End. Before I’ve said a word, my cappuccino and biscotti are already on their way to my table. Four years of visits. One barista who simply paid attention. It is, I’ve come…