—Ithaca, New York. After spending three weeks in Seattle, smoke-choked from the Bolt Creek Fire burning north of the city, I returned to Upstate New York. Here the skies were blue and the foliage glorious gold with touches of red from the sugar maples, most of whose leaves had already fallen. After the West Coast More

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