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"Like a painting stirred to life by summer wind, Provence is where the simplest of landscapes—poppies dancing in a field outside Roussillon—can turn suddenly sublime. No wonder artists are drawn to this corner of southern France, and why everyone from Roman emperors to movie stars has wanted to claim a piece of it. But as much as it gives up to those just passing through, Provence reserves its sweetest self for those who call it home."
　　
　　—From "Essence of Provence," September 1995, National Geographic magazine

A light fog floats through the live oak trees on Sapelo Island, a plantation site during the Altamaha River‘s 19th-century heyday.
　　
　　According to a 1998 National Geographic magazine article, "The Altamaha pumps 100,000 gallons [328,000 liters] of fresh water into the Atlantic Ocean every second, more than three trillion gallons annually. Its watershed, the third largest on the East Coast, shelters more than 125 rare species of flora and fauna."
　　
　　(Photographed on assignment for, but not published in, "The Easy Ways of the Altamaha," January 1998, National Geographic magazine)

These boys were students at a school in Gabon built by the U.S. Peace Corps. In 1964, wrote a National Geographic author, the Peace Corps‘ work spurred "the country of 450,000 toward its goal of universal education."
　　
　　(Photographed on assignment for, but not published in, "The Peace Corps," September 1964, National Geographic magazine)

"The oldest church still standing in Trinidad—Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria de la Popa, built in the early 1700s—needs restoration and is closed to the public. Yet it still attracts townspeople who gather at the hilltop site to watch the sun set."
　　
　　—From "Cuba‘s Colonial Treasure," October 1999, National Geographic magazine

"‘He‘s quiet and easy to catch,‘ says Lee Johnson, at left, of his pony Gypsy. Lee tends his charge in a stable behind his home in the Clondalkin district of Dublin, a metropolis where cars still dodge horse-drawn carts hauling vegetables to market."
　　—From "Ireland on Fast-Forward," September 1994, National Geographic magazine

"Barren town square in Palazzo Adriano evokes old Sicily—so much so that director Giuseppe Tornatore used it as a backdrop for his Cinema Paradiso, an affectionate look at postwar Sicily that won a 1989 Academy Award. Most of the town‘s 3,000 residents appeared as extras in the film about a little boy enchanted with the magic of movies."
　　
　　—From "Italy Apart: Sicily," August 1995, National Geographic magazine

"A symphony of earth tones, the old ocher quarry at Roussillon was once mined for 17 different tints of the mineral, which artists worldwide used to color paints and pottery. When ocher was made obsolete by cheaper, synthetic pigments, the quarry suffered losses and finally closed in 1958. Eroded and fragile, it has been declared a historical preserve; today tourist trails wind past walls of the chalk-soft rock."
　　
　　—From "Essence of Provence," September 1995, National Geographic magazine