52
52
52
95
95
476
476
476
452
352
352
252
252
320
320
320252
352
3
3
3
322
202
202
1
1
1
1
1
202322
BUS322
MIDDLETO
WN
ROAD
PROVIDENCE ROAD
BIS
HO
PH
OLL
OW
ROAD
The 1,050-acre Longwood Gardens is a botanical wonderland, with
manicured paths winding past treehouses, fountains, cafes and playgrounds.
In addition to the Scared Silly elephant
treehouse, Tyler Arboretum has such
permanent attractions as the Butterfly
House and Garden and the Painter
Plants tree collection.
Scott Arboretum of SwarthmoreCollege comprises 100 acres ofgreenery, including the Dean BondRose Garden and its 200-plusvarieties of roses.
Urban Outfitters Inc. takes fashionback to nature with Terrain at Styer’s,the company’s first greenhouse andgardening store.
Starthere
Driver’sroute
Pick blueberries and raspberries atLinvilla Orchards, or load up onfresh veggies at its farmers market.
At the Newlin Grist Mill, visit amill from 1704, a blacksmith shopand stocked streams for angling.
Ridley Creek State Park boasts more than2,600 acres of woodlands and meadows forhiking and biking, plus trout fishing on the creek.
The Brandywine River Museumhouses regional and American art,including works by three generationsof Wyeths, in a 19th-century gristmill.
All’s quiet on Brandywine Battlefield’sfront: The former Revolutionary War site is nowa tranquil park dotted with historic structures,such as George Washington’s headquarters.
The 120-acre Rose Tree Parkhosts the Summer Festival, aseries of 50 free concerts inan outdoor amphitheater.
HOFFMANS MILLROAD
COLLEGE AVENUECOLLEGE AVENUE
SWARTHMOREAVENUE
CEDAR LANE
BARREN ROAD
FORGE ROAD
KNOWLTONROAD
DELAWARE COUNTY
CHESTERCOUNTY
SwarthmoreCollege
Rose TreePark
Ridley CreekState Park
TylerArboretum
Brandywine CreekEXIT 7
EXIT 3
EXIT 5
WestChester
Chadds Ford
Concordville
Media
Chester Heights
Newtown Square
Edgemont
Gradyville
LONGWOOD ROAD
CREEKRD.
CH
EYNEY
ROA
D
GRADYVILLE ROAD
PAINTER ROAD
BALTIMORE PIKE
BALTIMORE PIKE
PE
NN
ELL
RO
AD
CH
ESTE
RR
D.
SPRO
UL
RO
AD
Delaware River
PENNSYLVANIADELAWARE
MIDDLETOWNROAD
95
958381
95
70
76
270
Philadelphia
D.C.
DELAWARE
NEWJERSEYMARYLAND
PENNSYLVANIA
Detail
0
MILES
3
RoadTrip See the Forest for the Treehouses in Pennsylvania
WHERE: Southeastern Pennsylvania
WHY: Houses in trees, berry pickin’ and fashionable gardening.
HOW FAR: About 38 miles from start to finish, and 130 miles fromWashington.
This summer, go climb a treehouse. Two garden centers inpastoral Pennsylvania are staging fanciful exhibitions of ar-boreal abodes: Tyler Arboretum is hosting “Totally TerrificTreehouses” through Sept. 28, while Longwood Gardens is
displaying “Nature’s Castles” through Nov. 23. “Families and children are really enjoying the opportunity to get
out into the forest and have a pleasant experience,” says Rick Col-bert, executive director of Tyler Arboretum. “The entire DelawareValley region is what we call a hotbed of horticulture.”
At the arboretum, local designers and builders conceived of andcreated 17 eclectic treehouses. Creativity is the common denom-inator: Scared Silly, for example, is a 15-foot-high pink elephant en-twined in a tree; Arboreal Amphibians consists of a posse of colorful
fiberglass frogs spaced around a glen; and Hanging Out features agrove of trees strung with hammocks ideal for hot, lazy weekends.The exhibit is set among towering cedars, spruces, pines and birch-es, some of which were planted in the 1850s by the arboretum’sfounding family, the Painters.
Fifteen miles to the west, Pierre du Pont’s Longwood Gardenshas transformed its own trees and grounds into a trio of upscaleshelters, including the Lookout Loft, an Adirondack-style retreat;the Canopy Cathedral, a two-story structure inspired by a Norwe-gian church; and the Birdhouse, which is not just for the birds.
— Ben Chapman
Road Trip maps are available at www.washingtonpost.com/roadtrip, as are addresses and hours of operation. (Be
sure to check before you go.) Have an idea for a trip? [email protected].
ONLINE GALLERY | To see more of Pennsylvania’s treehouses, check out the photo gallery at www.washingtonpost.com/source.
SOURCE 07-06-08 DC EE N6 CMYK
N6CMYK
N6CMYK
N6 Sunday, July 6, 2008 The Washington Postx
WEDNESDAY IN STYLE Escapes retreats to HerbertHoover’s Rapidan Camp in Shenandoah National Park.
MAP BY JEROME COOKSON FOR THE WASHINGTON POST; PHOTOS BY BEN CHAPMAN FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
BO
OK
BO
OK
CD
CD
CO
MIC
DV
DD
VD
GA
ME
TITLE BASIC STORY SAMPLE GRAB GRADEWHAT YOU’LL LOVE
“He spent an hour or two a day buried in his
Riverside Shakespeare, reading the plays, but
mostly he smoked hash in his room and listened
to music, living off his father’s increasingly
reluctant benefaction.”
— Greenberg just says yes.
The author, a founding member
of the Reduced Shakespeare
Company, pulls off a potentially
clumsy conceit with nuance and
panache, as the lives of our two
Williams intersect across time and
space with mind-bending results.
The novel interweaves tales of Willie Shakespeare
Greenberg, a sex-crazed slacker master’s candi-
date cum novice drug runner in 1980s California,
and 18-year-old William Shakespeare, sex-crazed
Latin teacher and aspiring writer in
16th-century Stratford-upon-Avon.
My Name Is Will: A Novel of Sex,Drugs, and Shakespeare By Jess Winfi eld
Twelve
$23.99
The character of Greenberg grates,
and the surfeit of bawdy puns, while
certainly Shakespearean, becomes
tiresome.
— Reviewed by Adriana Leshko
A-
WHAT YOU WON’T
MediaMix A Quick Take on New Releases
RYAN PHILLIPPE BY FRANCOIS DUHAMEL — NEW LINE CINEMA
B-
C-
B+
B
B-
B
C+
“Hugh’s eyes met hers and she felt an inner jolt.
For an instant it seemed that another possible
future life was held between them like a stream
of light. A tantalizing series of images, like a
movie or a glossy magazine.”
— Struggling mother Chloe reconsiders an old fl ame
This is throwaway fi ction at its fi nest:
Those in search of a quick, easy
vacation read that won’t tax their
brains (or make them think potentially
icky thoughts about their own lives and
marriages) could do much worse.
The chick-lit phenom (best known
by her pseudonym, Sophie Kinsella)
spins a tale of romantic intrigue
set at a villa in Spain, where two
families with intertwining histories
unwittingly converge, thanks to
the meddling of a rich friend.
SleepingArrangementsBy Madeleine
Wickham
St. Martin’s
$24.95
Half of the characters are just
names on the page, so one-dimen-
sional that they and their troubles
vanish from your mind at story’s
end. Dialogue that seems plucked straight out of
a romance novel doesn’t help.
— Sara Cardace
“Hey, what are you gonna
do / When those bombs
are falling down / Falling
down on you”
— “Walls”
This is Beck’s usual ADD indie pop, operating
at maximum strength. It’s larded with his usual
nods to surf and psych rock, prog, funk and ev-
erything in between. What else to expect: ironic
detachment, that robot thing he does and lyrics
you won’t understand.
Beck collaborates with Danger Mouse, the
go-to producer for down-at-the-heel hipster
acts who need to get their mojo back.
Modern GuiltBeck
Interscope
$13.98
If you don’t like Beck, this busy-even-for-him
offering won’t convince you otherwise.
— Allison Stewart
“Standin’ on a corner / Got my bucket in my hand /
Lookin’ for a woman / That ain’t got no man”
— Hank Williams’s “My Bucket’s Got a Hole in It”
It’s every bit as great as you’d think:
a genial, unforced disc staking out
territory somewhere between jazz
and country. The camaraderie seems
effortless: Wynton makes Willie seem
kind of classy; Willie makes Wynton
seem less somber.
This live recording, taken from the musicians’
joint two-night stand at Jazz at Lincoln Center in
January 2007, tackles standards from
Hoagy Carmichael to
Clarence Williams.
Two Men With the BluesWillie Nelson and
Wynton Marsalis
Blue Note
$18.98
It’s a little repetitive in spots, but
come on: Willie and Wynton?
Covering Hank and Hoagy? How
bad could it be?
— A.S.
“And is that what my life is doomed to be?
Trying to recreate my old life as closely
as possible, just so that I can get back to
square one? Do I have to do it all again?
Even the mistakes?”
Using clever layout tricks, Robinson gets
incredible mileage out of an 1980s teen movie
plot device, and his dialogue manages to give an
equal measure of humanity to both the adults
and adolescents in the story.
Forty-something smoker Andy
Wicks undergoes hypnotherapy
to kick the habit, only to fi nd
himself having to relive his teen-
age years after being psychically
teleported back to 1985.
Too Cool to Be ForgottenBy Alex Robinson
Top Shelf
$14.95
Even though it leads to the comic book’s most
heartfelt moment, the eleventh-hour transition
from high school remembrance to rumination on
mortality feels jarring.
— Evan Narcisse
“Shoot your mouth off now,
Deadshot!”
— Our hero takes aim at one of his enemies
Batman cartoons have never looked so
dynamic or beautiful. The disc offers fans
a Batcave’s worth of bonuses, including
four of the best episodes from the
1990s’ “Batman: The Animated Series.”
Top-notch comics
scribes and screenwriters
team with Japanese anime
directors to spin six stories
about the Caped Crusader
(voiced by Kevin Conroy).
Batman: Gotham Knight (Two-Disc Collector’s Edition)Rated PG-13
Warner Bros.
$29.98
With all of the talent involved, it’s disappointing
to see that only two of the segments have stories
that come close to matching the stunning visuals.
A word of caution: Much of the material is prob-
ably too disturbing for young children.
— Greg Zinman
“I signed up thinking I was going
to go over there and protect my
country, my family. Wanted
payback for 9/11.”
— King opens up to his army buddy’s fi ancee (Abbie Cornish)
Director Kimberly Peirce
(“Boys Don’t Cry”) re-
turns with a story about
Staff Sgt. Brandon King (Ryan Phillippe), a soldier
who has come home to Texas after an awful tour
in Iraq. When the government wants to send him
back, he goes AWOL.
Stop-LossRated R
Paramount
$34.99
The fi lm loses its grip once it leaves Tikrit and
Texas and becomes a road movie, and the end-
ing will strike many as an egregious cop-out.
— G.Z.
In addition to your three
main attack modes,
you can fi nd neat ways
to unleash new disas-
ters, such as rumbling the
ground near a hot spot to
make a volcano erupt.
It’s your typical tale of
a scientist who takes
revenge on the company
that stole his patents by
attacking its leaders’
homes with a weather
machine.
With all the real-world storms, fi res and fl oods
that have ravaged the country recently, a
tongue-in-cheek disaster game might hit a little
too close to home for some.
— Christopher Healy
The fi lm’s depiction of the
soldiers’ post-traumatic
stress disorder is harrow-
ing and brought into vivid
relief by an excellent cast.
Elements of DestructionXbox 360
Rated Teen
THQ
$10
»
»
»
»
»
»
As the mad doc, you set off
earthquakes, steer tornadoes and
launch lightning bolts to do as
much damage as you can to the
corporate fi ends.
»
»
Proofed by: duncanl Time: 17:22 - 07-03-2008 Separation: C M Y K HIGH-RES PROOF. IMAGES ARE RIPPED. FULL PROOF INTEGRITY.Product: SOURCE LayoutDesk: SOU PubDate: 07-06-08 Zone: DC Edition: EE Page: RDTRIP