Ashley Vaughan

Life at sea has its ups and downs

avaughan — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 07:35:56 +0000

My favorite viennoiserie

avaughan — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:26:58 +0000

When I lived in Notting Hill I was obsessed with Ottolenghi, the food and pastry shoppe that sits right across the street from the Richard Young Gallery, where I worked over the summer. I would spend hours in the gallery, glancing occasionally across the bricked street at the towers and towers of pastries, watching the steam rise from their espresso machine. It was heaven–and I adored it. Needless to say, my current locale is lacking the culinary flair of Notting Hill. When I want herb and rice salads, shallot, potato and goat cheese tatin or my must-have-with-my-coffee-in-the-morning-brioches, I do what all in-between city dwellers do: make it myself.

Just so you know, Ottolenghi has an excellent cookbook and also offers cooking classes.

Capital I’s

avaughan — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:38:09 +0000

Christmas on Walnut Street

avaughan — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:55:34 +0000

While the dates on the Theatre’s marquee are wrong for good reason (the festivities were postponed one week due to inclement weather), good job CVS:

The British are coming! And caroling?

avaughan — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:25:57 +0000

The only thing I love more than historical reenactments are British historical reenactments at home at Christmastime.

For more photographs from the 35th Annual British Night Watch Parade through the city of St. Augustine, click here.

One Story High

avaughan — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:07:10 +0000

Family Snapshot 1934 Courtesy of Laura Hope-Gill

Special issue 6.1 of Fast Capitalism is about the narrative, visual and auditory power of biography. Curated by Audrey Sprenger and Ashley Vaughan, One Story High features new, short and never before seen works by anthropologist Katie Stewart, novelist and literary critic Amitava Kumar, sociologist Charles Lemert and filmmaker and folklorist John Cohen, as well as eleven other master storytellers.

Nothing could be easier

avaughan — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:56:08 +0000

This time last year I was bundled up and counting leaves on the sidewalk of my favorite city. This year, I am still counting leaves, but exactly where they’re supposed to be.

For more photographs from in and around the Columbia River Gorge, including my week in Portland, click here.

Atlantic autumn

avaughan — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:02:28 +0000

I’ve been writing like a fiend for several months now and my mind’s capability for academic analysis is finally wearing thin, so this weekend saw a tiny escape: me and my ma and a road trip to Amelia Island! Now, I’ve written about Fernandina Beach before, and yes, there were a few shark teeth finds, but more importantly, I got to spend the day wandering around the type of quiet coastal town that’s perfect at the beginning of autumn–quiet, lazy and aesthetically adorable around every corner.

We walked the shore at early low tide, when it’s best to see sea creatures crawling the beach, and hit up 29 South for brunch, whose breakfast deliciousness can only be described in one way: Southern. For seabirds, railroad yards and all the pirate-y goodness I could find in one tiny town, scroll down and click here.

Things

avaughan — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:20:08 +0000

In the light, off the rails

avaughan — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:29:03 +0000

You know you’re Ashley Vaughan when:

1. You spend the midnight hour of September 30th hot gluing palm-size spiders to the exterior of your house
2. You proceed to tell the pest control man (treating the lawn the next day) that you also seem to have a spider problem
3. He doesn’t get it
4. You can build a shelf but can’t thread a bobbin
5. You quell your anxiety by watching films with English accents and apartment/antique hunting/thrifting on Craigslist
6. You find watercolor paintings from the 3rd grade and it makes your entire day