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Her depiction of Country Lane Bed and Breakfast is equally as charming.

The restored Italianate home, owned and operated by Joe and Jane Fister, is located three miles from downtown.

"The three guest rooms are spacious, and you could get lost in one of the bathrooms," McKinney remarks.

She adds that the Fister's B&B "provides more than a touch of elegance." Country Lane Bed & Breakfast is located at 430 Irvine Road.

The Golden Lion Bed and Breakfast and The Chambers Bed and Breakfast also are mentioned in the article as other great lodging choices.

Both of these B&Bs are located on Third Street in Danville's historic Beaten Biscuit Row district.

In addition to the accommodations, McKinney points out two favorite local eateries - Burke's Bakery and Delicatessen and Three Babes and a Monkey.

"I'm so pleased with Wanda McKinney's article in the April issue of Southern Living," said Mary Quinn K.

Ramer, executive director of the Danville-Boyle County Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB).

"Visits from travel writers are important to our community, as their trips oftentimes yield articles in national publications.

Ms.

McKinney's article continues to help us promote Danville-Boyle County as a tourism destination." For more information on local tourism attractions and accommodations, please visit the CVB's Web site at www.danvillekentucky.com or call (859) 236-7794.

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...ba href=/sleep/a/b,” Silva remembers.

His oldest brother fell out with their mother over her boyfriend while they lived in a trailer.

All the siblings except Jesus left the family.

“I was looking at the door, kneeling there alone for three hours, waiting for her to come home.” He witnessed shootings and stabbings.

When he was 10, a gang member offered him $20 to see how many people were standing around a corner, and then report back.

“I just stood there and jumped every time there was a shot,” he recalls.

When he and his mother moved to Utah, at age 13, he joined a gang.

“I made a lot of enemies,” he admits.

“I couldn’t take my nephews to the mall because I knew they’d get at me by going after them.” He ended up going to the Boys & Girls Club to meet girls but met Hunter instead.

According to Silva, their first encounters were not promising: “I didn’t like Walter at first.

He was rude, joking around.

The third day, he was frustrated.

He smashed some charcoal against the wall and said, ‘There, that’s your mark.’ I felt sorry for him—no one would get up to mark paper.” Silva joined him.

Taking a piece of charcoal from Hunter, he slashed out a line.

Hunter went back four or five steps, then ran at the paper and stabbed at it with the charcoal.

Silva cut and slashed in return.

“Dueling,” executing mayhem with whatever art materials Hunter usually sprung for out of his own pocket, was born.

Drawing had calming effects on Silva.

But when he showed one...

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We visited the famous Na Pali coast on the north side of the island, and were impressed but a little puzzled (I was, anyway) by the massive waves crashing on the beach.

Finally we took a helicopter tour, and you know what?

On every side of the island there were waves crashing on the beach.

I’m stumped.

OK, the waves on the north were bigger than those on the south—supposedly this is due to winter storms.

But shouldn’t the waters on the lee side of an island be calm?

—Alden S., Chicago Obviously not, but don’t let that get your hopes up, pops.

Just because a computer game faithfully reflects reality once in a while doesn’t mean you’re about to meet Lara Croft.

Yes, waves crash on all sides of an island, and no, that doesn’t require the wind to blow in all directions at once.

(Well, from all directions at once.) In the big-picture sense, you’re right that the chief force driving waves is the wind.

However, the ocean is a capacious place with a lot of water in it, and once set in motion, a sequence of waves, or wave train (actually, in midocean it’s more of a deep-swell train), isn’t an easy thing to divert.

So while waves move in the direction of the prevailing winds as a general proposition, what the wind is doing right this instant is largely immaterial.

Instead, how a wave behaves on encountering an island is mainly a function of its interaction with the surrounding sea floor.

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