Beautiful World

Beautiful World, NCPA’s 8th anthology, took a bit longer than anticipated, but we’re back, with our loveable shapeshifters Dex & Felicity and their twins, taking a little break from shifting in England to hob-knobbing with Shakespeare himself! * Also, Nacht the Knightly cat. Is it magic how he communicates with human Celeste? * Story about a 2-week program in London studying Shakespeare * Giraffes in Kenya vs Condors in CA * Peanuts & Charlie Brown! *

Wandering malls picking up strangers, changing to friends * Almost Boarding at Boreal * Teaching blind teen boys to ski in Washington State’s Blind Olympics training event * Boy Scouts drunk on root beer? * Sin City: The SF Barbary Coast * Wild travel in dream destinations * Courting in the 30s *

There’s the VA Hampton’s, with all those crazy bridges * A rough ride on a transport ferry in the Chesapeake Bay on Christmas Eve 1940 * Beaufort SC with teacher-turned-author Pat Conroy * Did a religious retreat answer the question? * Rafting in the Grand Canyon * Only 100 goats? She’s worth at least 500 in the Garden of Eden! * A new town named Ausfahrt!? *

Visit cool caves: US, Europe, Puerto Rico, and Bermuda * A lighthouse in Ireland * Sprouting hippie wings in Europe, attending the Message to Love Festival in 1970 * Aphrodisiacal artichokes in Italy!? * A missing cog to Germany’s famous Glockenspiel? * Touring Romania as a Jew in 2022 *

Ten days traveling with and teaching 15 HS students in Egypt & getting claustrophobic crawling up a 4000-year-old Great Pyramid * Wearing one special item through Africa, Mexico, China & Mongolia, Asia, Peru & Cuba * Hiding from the Nazis in Italy * 40 college students – 13 countries - 55-day bus tour through Europe – what could possibly go wrong? *

Lots of questions! Read the 29 stories inside for answers.