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New England is home to many famous authors. Today, many of their residences have become museums or National Historic Landmarks. Why not travel to some of their homes to see where they got their inspiration? Grant Olsen, a freelance writer and literary enthusiast who visited many of New England’s literary sites in 2012, voices the feelings of many travelers: “I love history and literature, so when they intersect it’s magical.” Here are some ideas about where to go and what to see on your tour of literary New England.

Try something new: become SCUBA certified and surround yourself with sea life.

The camera spans across the bank of the Chao Phraya River in Bangkok, Thailand, where locals gather to lift softly glowing lanterns into the dark autumn sky. Small green and purple boats made of leaves and Styrofoam carry flowers and candles out across the water, symbolically carrying away the griefs of the past year. It’s the 2011 celebration of Loi Krathong, the annual festival of the “Floating Crown,” and in the wake of major flooding across Bangkok, the small boats are weighed with more grief than usual.

Leah Bonner, Carl Eschler, and Camille Larsen: a special-needs teacher, an electrician’s mate, and a stay-at-home mom. These three seem to have little in common, but their pasts are tied to one place—Ecuador.

Advisor Jordan Carroll with staff member Caroline Kowallis

BYU Magazine's Winter 2012 issue was just released and highlights Stowaway's award-winning work in the article 'From Mykonos to Appalachia: Editing students in landlocked Utah take readers around the world.'

Each of the seven issues of Stowaway Magazine were created by a unique staff. Photo by Chelsea Fitch.Stowaway is a quarterly not-for-profit travel magazine created and published as a project for the capstone class of the editing minor at Brigham Young University (BYU). All class members contribute to planning, writing, editing, designing, creating web content, and selling ads.