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Abigail Struhl

Abigail Struhl is a graduate student in the English department at the University of California, Berkeley. She edits the Public Streets series for Public Books. icon

Apocalypse and Anticlimax: The Petrified Forest, Calistoga, CA

By Abigail Struhl

Unlike us today, the Victorians who discovered this stone forest were less afraid of the future than they were of forgetting the past.

Don Justo and the Never-Ending Cathedral: Mejorada del Campo, Spain

By Abigail Struhl

The 21st-century traveler is chronically late: the cathedrals are all built, or, if by some historical accident left unfinished, buried under ...

Sketches of Spain 2: A Simple Life in Salamanca

By Abigail Struhl

This is the latest installment of Public Streets, a biweekly urban observations series curated by Ellis Avery. “Go to Salamanca!” The open mic at El Rastrel—a vegetarian tapas bar in Salamanca ...

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