Tricia Vita

Canned Wonders
Charitable competitions produce remarkable feats of Canstruction®

Greetings from Coney Island!
A former carny kid casts an insider's eye on the world's most famous beach amusement park

Bet on the Thin Guy
Upon examining recent advances in speed-eating techniques, we would like to offer you the following advice...

Art Awhirl!
An Empire State carousel maker's dream machine is almost set to spin

Conjuring Houdini
Searching for the spirit of the great escape artist in his American hometown

Step Right Up!
For one fairground art collector it's always a banner year

Perfect Harmony
Milled logs of northern white pine from Quebec's Outaouais forest and a holistic design system that originated in India come together in a Vedic-style chalet in the cornfields of Iowa

Blossoming in the Blue Ridge
A city girl finds a new lifestyle, a new career, and recognition as an artist in a picturesque mountain town

A Natural Beauty
A red cedar home blends perfectly with its surroundings in Montana's Stillwater Valley

Sherlock's Home
Sleuthing the mysteries of Gillette's Castle in Connecticut

Molten Energy
Q & A with globe-trotting landscape painter Diane Burko, whose passion for volcanoes has taken her to Alaska, Hawaii, Iceland, and the Aeolian Islands

Rediscovering Governors Island
Among the first to sign up for guided tours of New York's newest national park were former Army and Coast Guard "brats" eager to revisit the place they once called home

The Ten-Woman Bicycle
"A tribute to the role of the bicycle in women's history...humorously told...wittily illustrated," Children's Book Bulletin (UK)

One Thousand and One-Second Stories
A gem of early modernism by the Japanese Dadaist Inagaki Taruho