Sherry Dewane
July 7, 2024 Featured Article

NPR Interview: Her binders of postcards started with her family’s demolished Phoenix hotel

Sherry Dewane began collecting postcards nearly a decade ago. Her family owned the Stagecoach Motor Hotel in Phoenix. Years after the inn was sold and turned into a parking lot at Sky Harbor Airport, Dewane started searching for old postcards of her family’s demolished hotel. Click below to listen: https://www.kjzz.org/news/2024-06-12/collections-her-binders-of-postcards-started-with-her-familys-demolished-phoenix-hotel

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June 18, 2022 Lifestyle

The Aurora Borealis

The Northern Lights are called the Aurora Borealis, named after the Roman goddess of dawn, Aurora, and the Greek name for north wind, Boreas.  The marriage of dawn and the cold north wind describes for me exactly what I saw each and every time I’ve had the fortune to see this performance in the night…

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May 16, 2022 Lifestyle

Walking and Then Some

Recently, it occurred to me that I’ve been walking for a very long time and for very many reasons.  I live in Los Angeles, and I find walks here with trees and flowers and hills. Vacations are consumed with walking, getting lost, exploring, whether in a city, or a rural area.  When I was a…

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February 20, 2021 Lifestyle

Farmer’s Markets

I recently attended a book signing and lecture by a celebrity chef.  By which I mean a chef who is a celebrity, not a chef who chefs for celebrities.   That digression is not the point of this missive, however.  This is a well-known chef who made what I considered to be a rather snarky statement…

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November 23, 2020 Lifestyle

Seehafer News Feature

I was featured in a news article and interviewed for a radio show last week by Seehafer News. Below is an excerpt from the article: “Sherry still sees herself as a ‘Wisconsin girl’.” — Seehafer News “A woman living in Las Angeles California remains amazed and enthralled by the Maribel Caves here in Manitowoc County….

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September 29, 2020 Maribel Caves Hotel

The Maribel Caves Hotel

My fascination with Maribel began on my first ride from our home on English Lake, to Maribel. Pronounced, by the way, as MariBEL, with the accent on the last syllable. Grandma Dewane, grew up there. For anyone who’s been to Maribel, you understand the allure. The Maribel Caves Hotel looks like a castle, stories abound,…

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