The document discusses golf courses in the Mid-Atlantic region. It notes the rising popularity of golf in the 1990s as new courses opened but tee times remained difficult to get. The Mid-Atlantic region is described as a blessed place for golfers with an amazing variety of locations and courses. Three golf courses located in Washington D.C. are highlighted - Rock Creek Public Golf Course, Langston Golf Course, and the two courses at East Potomac Public Golf Course, which provides a unique setting with views of landmarks like the Washington Monument.
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2 Setting up your virtual financial accounts
3 Budgeting your personal finances
4 “Pay yourself first” concept
5 How do you spend money?
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2 Setting up your virtual financial accounts
3 Budgeting your personal finances
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Volume 16 / Number 4 The Official Publication of the Washington D.C. Chapter of the National Employee Services and Recreation Association APRIL / 1998
olf's profile in the U.S. had never been higher by the time
TigerWoods and the U.S. Open came to the Congressional Country
Club in Bethesda last summer. Although Masters champion Woods
didn't win, Ernie Els' dramatic victory capped a two-week golf binge
(started the week before with a PGA tournament at nearby Avenel) that
left the Mid-Atlantic region buzzing. The golf boom, it seemed, was on.
But local golfers know the popularity of their sport has been rising
throughout the 90's. Each year a dizzying number of new courses open,
but from the Alleghenies to the Atlantic beaches, weekend tee times are
still harder to get than a hole-in-one.
Even so, the Mid-Atlantic golfer is blessed with an amaz-
ing variety of locales and courses to tee up on. Without a
doubt, this is a great place to be a golfer.
Local
Most people don't realize it, but there are three golf
courses right in D.C. Rock Creek Public Golf Course
(202-882-7332; $$) has an 18-hole, 4,700-yard course in a
wooded setting just off 16th Street. On the National Register
of Historic Places is the Langston Golf Course (202-397-8638; $$), which
opened along the Anacostia River in 1939. The par-72, 6,340-yard
course was the first in the area where African-American golfers
were allowed to play.
The 36 holes at the East Potomac Public Golf Course at Hains
Point (202-554-7660; $) have to qualify as one of the most unique places
in the country to golf. Let’s face it, where else can you hit a ball with the
Washington Monument and Jefferson Memorial as backdrops? The Blue
Course is just over 6,600 yards long (par 69), while the Red and White
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Snacking
Your Way
Through
Southern PA
B y E l l e n R y a n
at the Price Club or at a taco-bar happy hour is
fine if you want to fill up for free close to home.
But be ambitious. Go foraging not just for free
food but for fresh food. Fun, too, even fact-filled.
I’m talking about snacking your way through
Amish country, the breadbasket of Pennsylvania,
where it’s possible to get educated, entertained,
and, yes, fed every few miles from Nottingham to
York on factory taste tours.
Factory tours aren’t just for the kid in your life—
they’re for the kid in yourself. Who doesn’t want to
see close-up where potato chips come from and how
chocolate is made? Well, right here in your hands is a
full-blown free/fresh/fun/fact-filled hopscotch through
the fats and sugars of the food pyramid.
Many factories don’t allow tours at all. But more
are coming. Mason-Dixon Dairy Farm outside
Gettysburg is building a visitors center; Conestoga’s
Turkey Hill plans to open its ice-cream plant to the
public this summer. Whatever factory you choose,
what’ll you find if you stop by? Hang on, food lovers,
here’s the inside word—the ultimate guide to snack-
ing your way through southern Pennsylvania. Reviews
are listed roughly east to west.
Herr’s Foods, Nottingham (plenty of signs). 800-
637-6225. Mon.-Thurs. 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Fri. 9 a.m.-11 p.m.
(store open 8 a.m.-5 p.m.). Reservations requested.On
a pleasant green campus, Herr’s offers cheery colors,
cheery employees and a cheery 26-minute film. Our
hero, Chipper the chipmunk, keeps kids in giggles
with a better-than-average preview of the half-hour
Noshing
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MY PLACE
One Man’s Journey From
Cleveland to Boston and Beyond . . .
Judah Leblang
FINDINGMYPLACEOneMan’sJourneyFromClevelandtoBostonandBeyond...JudahLeblang
Praise
Lake Effect Press
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From wearing a‘WWJD’cap around Jacksonville,Florida (assuming it was
the moniker of a local radio station) to an unfortunate car accident on the first day of
kindergarten, to trying to fill out a muscle T-shirt at age 51 in the gay mecca of Provincetown,
Massachusetts, Judah Leblang’s journey of discovery blends comedy and drama. In this episodic
memoir, the author sketches the world he comes from, a world of poppyseed kuchen, Indians
baseball, and the great industrial city of Cleveland, Ohio, which seemed to be imploding in
the 1960’s and ‘70’s—and the world he inhabits today in Boston, as a hard of hearing
man with a funny name, navigating middle age.
“These memoir pieces collectively read like a
novel, and the reader will be hard-pressed to ‘eat
just one.’ Leblang does an excellent job of sharing
with us his falls, his rises, and his subsequent falls
as he seeks to eke out a place in this thing called
life. What emerges is a highly satisfying portrait
of a boy becoming a man becoming an adult,
navigating the outrageous slings and arrows life
tosses his way—it is, in short, the story of us all,
told with astonishing intimacy.”
— J.G. Hayes, author of ThisThingCalledCourage,NowBattingfor
Boston, and AMapoftheHarborIslands
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Effect
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Ray BradburyRay BradburyRay BradburyRay Bradbury
readers with his powerful prose and knowing grasp of the human
condition.
One secret to Bradbury’s lifelong productivity is that his play
and his work are the same. When asked,“How often do you
write?” Bradbury replies,“Every day of my life—you got to be in
love or you shouldn’t do it.”
. . . When I phoned his Los Angeles home for a 9:00 a.m.
interview, Bradbury was thoughtful and cranky, and told me
he’d already written a short story.
James Hibberd. What makes a great story?
Ray Bradbury. If you’re a storyteller, that’s what makes a great
story. I think the reason my stories have been so
being?”) andcomputers (“A computer is a typewriter,” he says,“I
have two typewriters, I don’t need another one”).
By mocking the electronic shortcuts and distracting entertain-
ment that replace human contact and active thinking, Bradbury
shows his science-fiction label is misplaced. He cares little for
science or its fictions. The author of more than thirty books, six
hundred short stories, and numerous poems, essays, and plays,
Bradbury is a consistent champion of things human and real.
There is simply no ready label for a writer who mixes poetry and
mythology with fantasy and technology to create literate tales of
suspense and social criticism; no ideal bookstore section for the
author whose stories of rockets and carnivals and Halloween cap-
ture the fascination of twelve-year-olds, while also stunning adult
In 1957, publishes
Dandelion Wine an
autobiographical novel
about his boyhood.
Twenty-six years after
The Martian Chronicles is
published, the first U.S.
spacecraft lands on Mars. Publishes Something
Wicked This Way Comes
in 1983.
When he is twenty,
his first story is
accepted by the
magazine Script.
In 1950, publishes
The Martian Chronicles,
which becomes a
bestseller.
Wins critical
acclaim for his novel
Fahrenheit 451
(1953).
An Apollo 11
astronaut names
a moon crater
Dandelion Crater, after
Bradbury’s novel.
Receives a World Fan-
tasy Award for lifetime
achievement in 1977. Ray Bradbury Theater,
a popular TV show, airs
from 1985 to 1992.
Receives medal
for Distinguished
Contribution to
American Letters from
the National Book
Foundation.
Bradbury browses through
spacesuits for possible television
series (1959).
Bradbury at the National Book
Awards in New York (2000).
Credit to come.
A Ray Bradbury Time Line.A Ray Bradbury Time Line.
At age fourteen,
moves with his family
to Los Angeles, where
he develops a love for
the movies.
Born on
August 22,
1920, in
Waukegan,
Illinois.
Publishes stories in pulp
magazines such as Black
Mask, Amazing Stories,
and Weird Tales
throughout the 1940s.
At age twelve,
decides to become
a writer.
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oday Bradbury continues to
criticize modern innovations,
putting him in the seemingly
contradictory position of being a
sci-fi writer who’s also a techno-
phobe. He famously claims to have
never driven a car (Bradbury finds
accident statistics appallingly
unacceptable; he witnessed a
deadly car accident as a teen). He
is scornful of the Internet (telling
one reporter it’s “a big scam” by
computer companies) and ATMs
(asking, “Why go to a machine
when you can go to a human
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early in the day; it made us feel sleepy, tired. But
this breakfast business was Made in England
like almost everything else that surrounded us,
the exceptions being the sea, the sky, and the air
we breathed.
At the time I saw this map—seeing England
for the first time—I did not say to myself, “Ah,
so that’s what it looks like,” because there was
no longing in me to put a shape to those three
words that ran through every part of my life,
no matter how small; for me to have had such a
longing would have meant that I lived in a cer-
tain atmosphere, an atmosphere in which those
three words were felt as a burden. But I did not
live in such an atmosphere. My father’s brown
felt hat would develop a hole in its crown, the
lining would separate from the hat itself, and six
weeks before he thought that he could not be
seen wearing it—he was a very vain man—he
would order another hat from England. And my
mother taught me to eat my food in the English
way; the knife in the right hand, the fork in the
left, my elbows held still close to my side, the
food carefully balanced on my fork and then
brought up to my mouth. When I had finally
mastered it, I overheard her saying to a friend,
“Did you see how nicely she can eat?” But I
knew then that I enjoyed my food more when
I ate it with my bare hands, and I continued
to do so when she wasn’t looking. And when
my teacher showed us the map, she asked us to
study it carefully, because no test we would ever
take would be complete without this statement:
“Draw a map of England.”
I did not know then that the statement
“Draw a map of England” was something far
worse than a declaration of war, for in fact a
flat-out declaration of war would have put me
on alert, and again in fact, there was no need
for war—I had long ago been conquered. I did
not know then that this statement was part of a
process that would result in my erasure, not my
physical erasure, but my erasure all the same.
I did not know then that this statement was
meant to make me feel in awe and small when-
ever I heard the word “England”: awe at its exis-
tence, small because I was not from it. I did not
know very much of anything then—certainly
not what a blessing it was that I was unable to
draw a map of England correctly.
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people who got to wear
England were English people.
They wore it well and they
wore it everywhere: in jungles,
in deserts, on plains, on top of
the highest mountains, on all
the oceans, on all the seas, in
places where they were not wel-
come, in places they should not
have been. When my teacher
had pinned this map up on
the blackboard, she said, “This
is England”—and she said it
with authority, seriousness,
and adoration, and we all sat
up. It was as if she had said,
“This is Jerusalem, the place
you will go to when you die but
only if you have been good.”
We understood then—we
were meant to understand
then—that England was to be
our source of myth and the
source from which we got our
sense of reality, our sense of
what was meaningful, our sense
of what was meaningless—and
much about our own lives and
much about the very idea of us
headed that last list.
At the time I was a child sitting at my desk
seeing England for the first time, I was already
very familiar with the greatness of it. Each
morning before I left for school, I ate a break-
fast of half a grapefruit, an egg, bread and butter
and a slice of cheese, and a cup of cocoa; or half
a grapefruit, a bowl of oat porridge, bread and
butter and a slice of cheese, and a cup of cocoa.
The can of cocoa was often left on the table in
front of me. It had written on it the name of
the company, the year the company was es-
tablished, and the words “Made in England.”
Those words, “Made in England,” were written
on the box the oats came in too. They would
also have been written on the box the shoes I
was wearing came in; a bolt of
gray linen cloth lying on the
shelf of a store from which
my mother had bought three
yards to make the uniform
that I was wearing had writ-
ten along its edge those three
words. The shoes I wore were
made in England; so were my
socks and cotton undergar-
ments and the satin ribbons
I wore tied at the end of two
plaits of my hair. My father,
who might have sat next to me
at breakfast, was a carpenter
and cabinet maker. The shoes
he wore to work would have
been made in England, as were
his khaki shirt and trousers,
his underpants and under-
shirt, his socks and brown felt
hat. Felt was not the proper
material from which a hat
that was expected to provide
shade from the hot sun should
be made, but my father must
have seen and admired a pic-
ture of an Englishman wearing
such a hat in England, and this
picture that he saw must have
been so compelling that it caused him to wear
the wrong hat for a hot climate most of his long
life. And this hat—a brown felt hat—became
so central to his character that it was the first
thing he put on in the morning as he stepped
out of bed and the last thing he took off before
he stepped back into bed at night. As we sat at
breakfast a car might go by. The car, a Hillman
or a Zephyr, was made in England. The very
idea of the meal itself, breakfast, and its sub-
stantial quality and quantity was an idea from
England; we somehow knew that in England
they began the day with this meal called break-
fast and a proper breakfast was a big breakfast.
No one I knew liked eating so much food so
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Single size egg coddler with “Made in
England” stamp on the bottom.
When I saw England for the first time, I
was a child in school sitting at a desk.
The England I was looking at was laid out on
a map gently, beautifully, delicately, a very
special jewel; it lay on a bed of sky blue—the
background of the map—its yellow form mys-
terious, because though it looked like a leg of
mutton, it could not really look like anything
so familiar as a leg of mutton because it was
England—with shadings of pink and green,
unlike any shadings of pink and green I had
seen before, squiggly veins of red running in
every direction. England was a special jewel all
right, and only special people got to wear it. The
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unequal to mine.” Then she laughed derisively
with that fierce laughter which cuts through
your flesh and penetrates right to the bone.
Sogolon Kedjou was dumbfounded. She had
never imagined that hate could be so strong in a
human being. With a lump in her throat she left
Sassouma’s. Outside her hut Mari Djata, sitting
on his useless legs, was blandly eating out of a
calabash. Unable to contain herself any longer,
Sogolon burst into sobs and seizing a piece of
wood, hit her son.
“Oh son of misfortune, will you never walk?
Through your fault I have just suffered the
greatest affront of my life! What have I done,
God, for you to punish me in this way?”
Mari Djata seized the piece of wood and,
looking at his mother, said, “Mother, what’s
the matter?”
“Shut up, nothing can ever wash me clean of
this insult.”
“But what then?”
“Sassouma has just humiliated me over a
matter of a baobab leaf. At your age her own son
could walk and used to bring his mother baobab
leaves.”
“Cheer up, Mother, cheer up.”
“No. It’s too much. I can’t.”
“Very well then, I am going to walk today,”
said Mari Djata. “Go and tell my father’s
smiths to make me the heaviest possible iron
rod. Mother, do you want just the leaves of the
Maghan Sundiata, also called Mari Djata, is
the son of King Maghan Kon Fatta of Mali and
his second wife, Sogolon Kedjou. A mysterious
hunter has predicted that the boy will one day be
a mightier leader than Alexander the Great, the
legendary Greek conqueror. Few people believe
this prophecy, however, because Mari Djata is
already seven years old and has still not learned
how to walk. He seems an unlikely candidate
for emperor.
King Maghan Kon Fatta dies and his first wife,
Sassouma Bérété, makes her own son the king.
Always jealous of Mari Djata and his mother, she
banishes them to the backyard of the palace,
forcing them to live a life of poverty.
fromThe Lion's Awakening
Sogolon Kedjou and her children lived on the
queen mother's leftovers, but she kept a little
garden in the open ground behind the village. It
was there that she passed her brightest moments
looking after her onions and gnougous.1 One day
she happened to be short of condiments and went
to the queen mother to beg a little baobab2 leaf.
“Look you,” said the malicious Sassouma, “I
have a calabash3 full. Help yourself, you poor
woman. As for me, my son knew how to walk at
seven and it was he who went and picked these
baobab leaves. Take them then, since your son is
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Women prepare baobab leaves for use in cooking. Bassamba, Pays Tamberma,Togo.
Granary in village of Sanha.
1. gnougous n. pl.: root vegetables.
2. baobab (b†√£·bab≈) n.: tropical tree whose leaves are
used as a cooking herb.
3. calabash n.: hollowed-out gourd used as a bowl.
Vocabulary
affront (√‡fruntº) n.: intentional insult.
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The setting and characters in Sundiata reveal the unique history and
traditions of the culture from which the epic sprang. Mali in the thirteenth
century was a powerful kingdom, enriched by alliances with many neighbor-
ing nations. Its civilization was complex and wealthy, its leaders well educated.
But its king, Sundiata’s father, died when Sundiata was still a child, leaving
Mali vulnerable. An invasion by Mali’s enemies, the Sossos, is the event that
tests Sundiata’s heroism.
These excerpts from Sundiata show the hero in his first childhood triumph
and end with his great triumph in adulthood. As you read, note Sundiata's
qualities as a leader and hero to his people.
SundiataAn Epic of Old Mali
D. T. Niane
translated by G. D. PICKETT
Sundiata
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CHARACTERS IN THE EPIC
Maghan Sundiata (sºn·dyä√tä): the
hero of the epic. He is also called Mari
Djata and Sogolon Djata.
King Maghan Kon Fatta: Sundiata’s
father, the king of Mali.
Sogolon Kedjou (sô·gô·l£n√): Sundiata’s
mother.
Balla Fasséké (bä√lä·fä·s†√k†): Sundiata’s
griot.
Sassouma Bérété (sä·sº√mä·b†·r†√t†):
the queen mother; the first wife of the
king.
Dankaran Touman
(dän√kä·rän·tº·män): Sassouma Bérété’s
son. He is King Maghan Kon Fatta’s
successor and Sundiata’s half brother.
Soumaoro Kanté: the sorcerer-king of
Sosso; Sundiata’s nemesis.
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