As we walked from cemetery to church to open bluff, Mr. Toope played readings on his tape recorder: excerpts from court records of bawdy 18th-century Trinity, an inventory of shipwrecks with the number of lives lost.
But there was an open, bluff quality to Duke Wayne that made people forgive and even respect him.
Besides, Mr. English only jazzed up the summertime classics, like a crab cake with corn salsa and tarragon aioli ($24), and a warm poached lobster salad with green beans and beurre blanc ($29). 2 p.m. 11) NOT QUITE OPEN HOUSE The Bluff Walk in Siasconset village was once the south shore's most fiercely guarded secret.
Until a few years ago, the smell was never a problem because the bluffs were open for people to walk on.
Here, cypress groves open up to craggy bluffs with 30-mile views of the Golden Gate bridge and the Marin Headlands on the other side of the Bay.
The choice of Council Bluffs to open this week's bus tour is significant not only because Iowa is so critical to the president's re-election hopes, but also because it is just across the Missouri River from, and in the same television market as, Omaha.
Bluffs Run opened in 1986.
Iowa Western Community College Council Bluffs Campus opened in 1966.
The best dishes are gutsy and unrefined, as bluff and open as an English sheepdog.
As the road passed through a gorge near Balamorghab, insurgents hiding on the bluffs above opened fire with small arms and rocket-propelled grenades, officials said.
Rather than order a rapid advance — or more appropriately, a tactical withdrawal — Baker directed most of his troops to assume a defensive position along the bluff, on open ground with their backs to the cliff and the river below, surrounded on three sides by Confederates firing at them from the shelter of woods.
