Program 630a: Portugal's Art and Architecture; Breakfast With Polygamists; Jack London's Yukon

It took the harshness of a particularly bitter winter in Dawson City to inspire Jack London to write one of his most famous tales of the North.  On the next Travel with Rick Steves, Richard Grant tells us what he discovered about Jack London’s Yukon.

Travel writer Dave Seminara tells us about meeting bush doctors in the jungles of Nicaragua and Belize.

Guides from Lisbon point out the art that colors the streets of Portugal. 

And we get a close-up appreciation of Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa."

• Cristina Duarte, tour guide based in Lisbon  
• Rafael Pereira, tour guide based in Lisbon
• Travel writer Dave Seminara, author of "Breakfast with Polygamists: Dispatches from the Margins of the Americas" (Wanderlust Press)
• Travel writer Richard Grant, author of "The Deepest South of All: True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi" (Simon and Schuster)
• Gene Openshaw, co-author of "Rick Steves Europe's Top 100 Masterpieces:  Art for the Traveler" (Avalon Travel)

• The Rick Steves online guide to visiting Portugal. 
• The Calouste Gulbenkian art museum in Lisbon comes highly recommended by listener Patrick and the guides.
• Rick writes about the fado music scene in Lisbon in his book of travel essays, For the Love of Europe. Rick reads from that entry in an extra to this week's show.
• Cristina Duarte's website includes information about visiting Lisbon, and her tour services.
• Rafael Pereira provides small group tours of the Jeronimos Monastery Church in Lisbon.
• Dave Seminara writes about his travels in the Americas in his book "Breakfast with Polygamists." His website includes information about his 2011 book, "Mad Travelers: A Tale of Wanderlust, Greed and the Quest to Reach the Ends of the Earth."
• Dave posted his interview with Belizean bush doctor Harry Guy on YouTube.
• The free Friday night Rosine Barn Jamboree is held in the Kentucky hometown of bluegrass music legend Bill Monroe. It closes for the winter from Mid-December until mid-March.
• Richard Grant wrote about visiting Dawson City in the Yukon to investigate the activities of author Jack London during the Klondike gold rush, in Smithsonian magazine in November 2019.
• Dawson City, Yukon Territory lies at the confluence of the Yukon and Klondike Rivers, and was the setting for the Klondike Gold Rush.
• Richard also lived in Natchez, Mississippi to learn what makes the town distinctive, which he writes about in his book "The Deepest South of All."
• The Louvre museum in Paris lets you view Mona Lisa online, and will have information on when the Covid-19 pandemic conditions will allow the museum to re-open.
• Rick's latest collaboration with Gene Openshaw is Europe's Top 100 Masterpieces.

• "Get thee to the Gulbenkian Gardens and Fine Art Museum in Lisbon, and if you're heading to Belem, check out the horse carriage museum. Portugal is one of the 'power countries' that colonized and collected the riches, and is not known particularly for a world class art museum. But I would say the Gulbenkian really is a first class museum, and even better, it has a relaxing and accessible feel to it that makes it easy, and so much more enjoyable." (email from Patrick in Long Beach, California)
• "How do you get to know Lisbon's growing street art scene, and remain respectful to the people living in the neighborhoods?" (email from Ward in Winston-Salem, North Carolina)

• Jay Unger, et al, "Bonaparte's Retreat," Lewis and Clark:  The Journey of the Corps of Discovery (soundtrack) / RCA
• Alain Goraguer, "Les Lavandières du Portugal," Go-Go-Goraguer / Sunnyside  
• Jorge Fernando, "Velho Fado,"  Music from the Wine Lands (collection) / Putumayo
• Sinfionetta de Lisboa, "Dez Vocalizos Para Leonor E Arcos O Chorinho De Me Filh' Antonio," Carrapatoso: Leonoreta / La Ma de Guido
• Mariza, "Fado Portugues de Nos," Transparente / EMI Music Portugal
• * Oscar Aleman, "April in Portugal," Swing Guitar Masterpieces / Acoustic Disc
• Modern Mandolin Quartet, "Redonda," Sampler '94 (collection) / Windham Hill
• Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra, Scott Yoo, conductor, featuring Mark O'Connor, "Strings and Threads, Suite X:  Queen of the Cumberland (composed by Mark O'Connor)," The American Seasons / Sony
• Grupo Kual, "Cumbia Colombiana," Los Reyes de la Cumbia / Nopal
• William Galison, "Blues Harp," Bagdad Café (soundtrack) / Great Jones-Island Records
• Roscoe P and Coal Train, "John Brown's Dream," Live at Floyd Country Store / (self-released, 2012)
• Lawrence Laughing, "Ska Ka Luk Sa," Many Blessings:  A Native American Celebration (collection) / Silver Wave Records
• Blue Chip Orchestra, "Tate-The Wind," Red Sky Beat / Hearts of Space
• Jaramar, "La Tortuga," A Native American Odyssey:  Inuit to Inca (collection) / Putumayo
• Bill Monroe, "Bluegrass Special," The Early Years / Vanguard
• * Tracy Schwarz Cajun Trio, "The Wagon Wheel Special," The Tracy Schwarz Cajun Trio / Swallow
• Johnny Landry (Dene - NW Territories), "Hinena Hoho Hine," Here and Now: First Nations and Folk (collection) / CBC-Sony Special Music Products
• soundtrack to The Kentuckian, "Saloon Piano," The Kentuckian-Williamsburg (The Complete Bernard Herrmann Scores) / Tribute Film Classics
• Danielle Martineau, "L'Eau et le Vent," Here and Now: A Celebration of Canadian Music, disc 1 (Music of the First Peoples and Folk Music)  (collection) / CBC-Sony Special Music Products
• Gordon Lightfoot, "Whispers of the North," Salute / Warner Records-Rhino
• Gianmaria Testa, "Il Viaggio," Italia Musical Odyssey (collection) / Putumayo
• Orchestre de l'Association des Concerts Colonne, "Le salon de la paix (soundtrack from the film 'Si Versailles')," Le Film Français:  Honegger, Françaix, Sauguet, Thiriet / EMI Classics
• Jim Reeves, "Mona Lisa," Friends Everywhere / Red Dirt

* Indicates filler music used during internal breaks on the broadcast

• Rick starts this week's billboard referring to "an especially brutal" winter in the Yukon, and refers again to winter in the Yukon in the segment A open.
• At 27:20, Dave Seminara describes the barn dances in Rosine, Kentucky, but adds that it's too cold for them to be held in January and February.
• Rick mentions that Dave's "newest collection" of travel tales is "Mad Travelers," at 35:20. 
• In the open to segment C, Rick notes that Richard Grant wrote his article about Jack London's Yukon for the November 2019 Smithsonian magazine. The interview includes descriptions of the winter conditions that Jack London experienced. 
• At 54:34, Gene describes the "paparazzi crowds" at the Louvre to view Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa." (It includes the sound of one of those crowds.)