Vance Muse, communications director at The Menil Collection, is the authorof Old New Orleans (1988), two volumes of the Smithsonian Guide to HistoricAmerica (Northern New England, revised edition, 1998;Deep South, revisededition, 1998), and We Bombed in Burbank: A Joyride to Prime Time (1994), aswell as coauthor, with Raymond W. Daum, of Walking with Garbo: Conversations andRecollections (1991). He is at work on a new book, We Were Here, about an early20th-century gay summer colony in New England. * Tags [http://static.culturemap.com/site_media/rd/img/tag_tags.png]