Evan L. Balkan

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Evan L. Balkan lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland, where he teaches English at the Community College of Baltimore County and where he is a student in the graduate creative writing program at the Johns Hopkins University. In the last thirteen years, he has set foot in over eighteen countries. Evan's contributions to Travel Outward include the feature article "Irish Hospitality."

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[7 Jul 2003 | No Comment | 16 views]

The train was just arriving at the Drogheda station as the bomb went off. For obvious reasons, we would go no further that day… As news of the abandoned train spread through Drogheda, a medium-sized town less than an hour from Dublin, the townspeople began to make their way to the station.