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About The Cultured Traveler
Developer, Tony Valente
Tony
Valente, CBC Communications, both created and developed the Cultural
Travels suite of web sites which includes the Cultured Traveler Newsletter—originally developed for Sheri Leigh of Enterprise Webs. Ms. Leigh died of
Lung cancer in December of 2007 without specific post-death instructions.
In the
absence of those instructions CBC maintained the online presence of the
travel sites in a passive manner. Now, nearly two years later (August, 2009)
Valente has decided to re-invigorate what Ms. Leigh started, first by simply
monitoring the sites and offering them as a package for active operation and
further development to those who could continue in Ms. Leigh's vision.Please
call 415-251-5417 or
contact us
with any thoughts or questions.
Harbor Oak Business
Development
10 Harbor Oak Dr. #12
Tiburon, CA 94920
415-251-5417
Santa
Rosa, CA-based Sheri Leigh,
was a graduate in Renaissance Studies from the
University of California at Berkeley, is a former travel agent and world
traveler who created the Cultural Travels concept in 1998. In 2000, Leigh
introduced Cultural Travels’ online newsletter, The Cultured Traveler,
as a monthly adjunct to Cultural Travels’ database of 1,600+ specialty tour
operators.
Leigh
was Acting CEO of Enterprise Webs, a Web commerce
development company that was the parent of the Cultural Travels web sites (including
the Poor Alice online bookstore).
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Sheri Leigh
Santa
Monica, CA-based Flo Heckenbach is the creator and editor of The Cultured
Traveler’s Calendar feature, which now has a database of more than 350
festivals worldwide. Heckenbach started the section in 2001 as a small
add-on to the newsletter’s archiving capabilities. Over several months, she
grew the section both in terms of scope and sophistication. The section now
provides the capability to search for festivals by theme, country or date.
Heckenbach, a seasoned traveler who has made many visits to Europe, North
Africa and the Mediterranean littoral, has extensive experience with
non-profit foundations as an organizer and fundraiser.
Calendar
Totty is a former trade newspaper and
magazine editor who has specialized in custom business-to-business and
institutional writing since 1986. He has been a web content writer since
1994 and contributor to The Cultured Traveler since its inception in
2000
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Patrick Totty
Dea Adria Mallin is a
professor of English at the Community College of Philadelphia. She has spent
the past two summers living in
Italy
– seven weeks in Venice, seven in the baroque Italian town of Lecce in the
heel of the Italian boot, and two months in
Rome, living above a tiny piazza just behind the Pantheon.
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by Dea Adria Mallin
 Lowell
Courtney
Lowell Courtney has been in tourism for over
30 years as a retail agent, Blue Badge guide, lecturer and custom tour
operator. He is a director of Lynchpin Tours who offer personalized
all-Ireland tours to more discriminating travelers. As an erratic golfer
and fan of The Far Side, Lowell takes an often wry look at tourism matters
in his native country.
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by
Lowell Courtney
Scranton
is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Cruz, where she
majored in Japanese and Asian Studies. As a high school and college student,
Scranton had twice visited Japan for extended periods of time. After
college, she decided to live in Japan on a long-term basis and spent 10
years there, returning to the U.S. in 2001.
Fluent
in spoken and written Japanese, Scranton is Enterprise Web’s liaison to
Cultural Travels Japan, a start-up site aimed at that nation’s vast travel
market. Scranton coordinates marketing, contractual arrangements and the
exchange of content. She is based in Santa Rosa, CA.
Brackstone was born in Kenya, the daughter of a British corporate officer.
Educated in London, she has lived in New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Boston
and, now, Bermuda. In Bermuda, Brackstone is a local real estate agent and
consultant to the Ministry of Tourism.
Her
most recent articles in The Cultured Traveler covered winter
activities in Bermuda and strange encounters among animals at an African
watering hole.
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Jill Brackstone
Moskow, a former newspaper editor, is a freelance writer based in
Lexington, MA.She writes on the arts and travel for metropolitan newspapers
and magazines in the U.S. and abroad. She has also written two books and
contributed to others.
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Shirley Moskow
 Contributor
Ron Bernthal
Ron Bernthal is an award-winning print and broadcast travel journalist.
His weekly program, Borders, airs on WJFF public radio, and audio
documentaries are broadcast on NPR/PRI stations nationally. He is a
Professor of Tourism Management at the State University of New York in Loch
Sheldrake, NY.
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Ron Bernthal
 Contributor
Caroline M. Jackson
Caroline
Jackson has wielded her pen in pursuit of travel adventure in many lands.
Whether swashbuckling through the jungles of Thailand atop an elephant,
riding a camel across Australia's brick-red Outback, spelunking in Vancouver
Island's caves, exploring the icy Swiss Alps, or steaming like a clam in a
Finnish sauna, it has been a privilege to share each experience with her
readers. Hailing from Scotland, she travels with her husband Hamish, who
brandishes a weighty camera when confronted by anything moving or scenic.
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Caroline M. Jackson
 Contributor Toni Dabbs
A writer and editor for more than 25 years, Toni Dabbs currently is
"specializing in the written world." Her travel features, written from
first-hand experience, appear regularly in newspapers and magazines
throughout North America. She enjoys investigating the uniqueness of any
destination, its representative cuisine, character hotels, and attractions
of historic, cultural or natural significance. She is an active member of
both the Society of American Travel Writers and the Travel Media Association
of Canada. Find articles
by Toni Dabbs
Contributor Stephanie
D. Fletcher
Stephanie Fletcher is
a veteran freelance writer/photographer whose specialties are travel, food,
the arts, and interviews. She is an active member of the Society of American
Travel Writers and she roams the world in search of exotic topics. Her work
regularly appears in major American newspapers and magazines. Past clients
include: US
Airways Attaché, Culinary Trends, Art & Antiques, National Geographic
Traveler,
Baltimore Sun,
Denver Post, Nashville Tennessean, Dallas Morning News, New York Post,
Buffalo News,
and other print outlets.
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by Stephanie Fletcher
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