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Longing for an assisted death, she didn’t get one
Commentary, Local Columnists
ALAN LITTELL Special to Olean Times Herald 
August 30, 2024
I’ve had a good life, learning and traveling and am lucky enough here in the UK [United Kingdom] to be allowed an assisted death which I hope will be ...
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Tourism slowdown threatens Arab, Israeli economies
Allegany County News, Daily Headlines, Local News, ...
ALAN LITTELL Special to Olean Times Herald 
January 20, 2024
(Caroline Littell, whose photographs appear on this page, died in 2015. She was an internationally published travel photographer whose work is represe...
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On safari in East Africa — searching for Simba
Allegany County News, Lifestyle, Local News, ...
ALAN LITTELL Special to Olean Times Herald 
April 3, 2021
I fly south at dawn above the basin of the Nile on a route from Cairo and Khartoum to Kenya’s Great Rift Valley, a 40-mile-wide trough of grass and sc...
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The ambiguity of the past
Allegany County News, Lifestyle, Local News, ...
ALAN LITTELL Special to Olean Times Herald 
February 20, 2021
In the Andean upland of Colombia there lies an antique town. It is, I think, the apotheosis of the preservationist’s art, for it is real only in the s...
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Remembering Egypt — and an English child’s grave
Allegany County News, Lifestyle, Local News, ...
ALAN LITTELL Special to Olean Times Herald 
January 2, 2021
I first traveled to Egypt on newspaper assignments in 1994. Four years later, I returned for a closer look at this endlessly fascinating country, but ...
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The search for an enduring past
Allegany County News, News
ALAN LITTELL Special to Olean Times Herald 
October 17, 2020
Escape takes many forms. One of them certainly is escape into the past. The late Carol Shilkett embodied, I think, that brand of romanticism, although...
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Hart Comfort House in drive to build volunteer support
Allegany County News, Lifestyle, Local News, ...
ALAN LITTELL Special to Olean Times Herald 
October 10, 2020
WELLSVILLE — A village hospice, Hart Comfort House, has announced plans to expand its base of volunteers in a move to maintain what the facility calls...
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