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The Huntington is a glorious visit more than one can cover in a day. First, a botanical garden covering 150 acres landscaped like a park offering a 12-acre desert garden, a Japanese garden that displays stone ornaments, a bonsai court, a Japanese house, drum bridge and walled Zen garden and a rose garden with, of course, a delightful teahouse to serve those wise enough to have booked in advance. Second, magnificent art collections (housed in three separate buildings) that include one of the most comprehensive collections of 18th Century British art outside London; this is the home, for example, of Lawrence's celebrated Pinkie and Gainsborough's famous Blue Boy. Third, a library that contains a manuscript of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, a Gutenberg Bible, Benjamin Franklin's handwritten autobiography, and the double-elephant folio edition of Audubon's Birds of America-for starters. |
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This city with 500 restaurants and a free bus shuttle from Lake Avenue along Colorado in a 25 minute loop around Uptown and Downtown has some of California's Bests. "It has the Best City Hall's architecture after San Francisco. The Best of the first hotels. The Best sunken freeway. The Best cultural activities. The Best example of city redevelopment. And the Best place to live." Who's talking? Just a man in the street, one Douglas Brutsche, a safety consultant, and clearly one of its Best boosters.
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