by Stowaway Magazine | Mar 25, 2020 | Escapades, Winter 2020
Are you in for a ride? Then coast through history with us and discover some of the oldest amusement parks in the world. 1. Bakken (Dyrehavsbakken) • Klampenborg, Denmark • 1583 Dyrehavsbakken, or Bakken for short, is the world’s oldest operational amusement park....
by Stowaway Magazine | Mar 13, 2017 | Field Notes, Winter 2017
What happens when you combine a salt mine, an underground lake, and a mummy? No, I’m not talking about a Harry Potter book or an Indiana Jones film; I’m talking about the Hallstatt Salt Mine. There are many ways to interact with history, from textbooks to museums, but...
by Stowaway Magazine | Dec 13, 2013 | Arts, Culture, Recent Articles, Spring 2014
Driving through the misty Austrian mountains to the small village of Hallstatt was a highlight of Arizona resident Daniel Ostler’s memorable high school choir trip to Austria. Ostler recalls the scene as his choir sang “Ave Maria” in an open amphitheater facing the...
by Stowaway Magazine | Feb 29, 2012 | Photo Contest, Spring 2012
First Place Three Orphans Photo by Stephanie JarstadFederal Way, Washington This image was captured in Kibera, Kenya, at an orphanage called Siloam. I volunteered as a schoolteacher and an orphanage worker for a summer. Four hundred students who cannot afford to go...
by Stowaway Magazine | Dec 28, 2011 | Insider, Staff Essay
“Know all, and you will pardon all.” —Thomas à Kempis I hated Mozart for good reason. My grudge developed when I was 15 years old, mostly because performing his Violin Concerto no. 3 in G Major for the Southwestern Youth Music Festival was my most humiliating teenage...
