Monthly Archives: March 2012

Monthly Archives: March 2012

The Aquatic MedTrekker

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My 2011 swim across the Hellespont, which enabled me to stroke from Europe to Asia and continue my long-distance walk around the Mediterranean Sea beyond Troy in Turkey, has been heralded in a book that will be published Tuesday (April 3, 2012). Former ABC News correspondent and long-time swimmer Lynn Sherr uses

Marilyn Hagerty Is No Idiot

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Marilyn Hagerty — the 85-year-old Internet-viral food critic and columnist from North Dakota who became instantly famous (Google her) this month following her recent review of The Olive Garden in Grand Forks — was among the first US critics to write about “The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean.” Below is