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Jill Schensul travels all over the world for her column in The Record. Readers on the Road
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Author Archives: Jill Schensul
Put yourself in their place
Visiting the Red Star Line Museum in Antwerp, Belgium, inspired me to find out more about my ancestors. In the past, I’ve always come up empty — Ellis Island, Yad Vashem, every database all those millions of names, and I’d … Continue reading
Antwerp’s Ellis Island, where walls do speak
It looked like a warehouse. I’d come 3,700 miles on planes, trains and yes, automobiles, to get here, to Antwerp, for a preview of the new Red Star Line Museum and it looked like a warehouse. Warehouses, actually. Three red … Continue reading
From Antwerp, it’s all a one-tank drive
I’m in Antwerp (that’s in Belgium, people do sometimes want to ask that). I came specifically to preview the new Red Star Line Museum. which opens today (Sept. 28). But discovered lots of small and big treasures in this history-rich … Continue reading
The thrill of the babble
I’m heading off to Antwerp today, for the opening of the Red Star Line Museum, which I’ve already written about and which I’ll be writing more about very soon. But right now, I just wanted to get down the moment. … Continue reading
NJ files a suit for the stranded
On Oct. 1, 2012, Club ABC Tours disappeared. So did $1,033,245. So did the long-anticipated travel dreams of countless ABC customers. Today NJ’s Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman and the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs filed suit against … Continue reading
Hey, buddy, how much you want for that bulkhead seat?
Gee, I thought passengers were just holding up progress in the aisle because they were stuffing their stuff in the overhead bins. Turns out they were wangling deals for better seats. I had no idea passengers had started bribing other passengers … Continue reading
Get your motor running, and blessed
I’ve attended blessings of animals, blessings of fleets, blessings of new buildings. I was always going to other people’s blessings. Today, though, I came upon the perfect blessing event: Blessing of the automobiles and travelers! I was looking for monasteries … Continue reading
Sequestration’s single silver lining
I figured sequestration would only mean disaster for air passengers. Like, OK, let’s put even more stress on the shaky, badly understaffed air traffic control system by REDUCING THEIR HOURS could even be considered simply boggles my mind. Apparently, I … Continue reading
Happy campers down the Shore
A band I knew had a song that spoke to my personal cultural experience: “Jews Don’t Camp.” But they do “cabin.” I snagged a cabin at a Jersey Shore campground last night, and now have been able to enjoy the … Continue reading
Driving while creeped out
I’m headed down the Shore today, listening to “The Accursed” by Joyce Carol Oates (just released) on CD. It’s set in Princeton early 1900s, with hysteria and eerieness very akin to Salem ramping up for the witch trials. So I’m … Continue reading