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Christine Egan
Christine has worked as an editor in the travel departments at Town & Country (with Indagare founder Melissa Bradley) and Time Out New York. Following those posts she was an editor at Travel Holiday, traveling throughout the world for that magazine and writing about the food and culture of places as diverse as Machu Picchu and Montreal. Her travel pieces have also been published in the New York Times, Glamour and Paper. Recently, Christine completed her Master’s Degree in Classical Acting while living in London. Three of her favorite places on earth include Havana, Clearwater Lake in Maine and the tiny mountain town of Poggio in Northern Italy. When she isn’t on the road, Christine lives with her husband in Brooklyn, New York and the Catskill Mountains.
Articles
Learning: Leading the Way: Amazon Adventure
Amazon River cruises aren’t necessarily synonymous with private baths and air-conditioned cabins, nor are family vacations usually associated with both learning and lounging. This summer, however, Smithsonian Journeys provides both...
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Green/Eco: People: A Green Visionary
Saving the environment while vacationing in high style? Impossible! Not according to Hitesh Mehta. A pioneering landscape architect, the forty-seven-year-old Mehta—who directs the ecotourism sector at EDSA, a leading environmental...
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Giving Back: People: France: Saving and Seeing Sights
There’s a long tradition of Americans working to preserve monuments abroad. Of France’s architectural triumphs, philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr. wrote: “These are not only national, but international treasures, for...
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Learning: Pulse: Summer School Abroad
Blame it on Thomas Friedman and his best-selling book The World Is Flat: high-school students (and their parents) have become increasingly aware of the importance of being global citizens with...
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Learning: People: Get Smart
Harriet F. Friedlander wants you to sail the rivers and lakes linking St. Petersburg to Moscow aboard a yacht, marvel at masterpieces inside the State Hermitage Museum before it opens...
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Green/Eco: Pulse: Carbon Offsets: Global Payback
Ever since Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth won the 2007 Academy Award for Best Documentary, the term carbon offsets has played a major supporting, if not starring, role in the...
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Giving Back: Pulse: Make a Difference
Philanthropists typically support charitable organizations by making contributions from home, but a growing number are incorporating an altruistic element into their voyages abroad. Oprah Winfrey’s travels to South Africa inspired...
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