Here are three samples of Janet and Stuart Wilson’s work published in three different magazines. Recently updated for publication on this website, they are illustrated with some of the photos that appeared in the magazines. Additional articles may be available online through links to publications on the Links page. All three articles and the accompanying photographs are copyrighted by Janet and Stuart Wilson.

Speaking into the pay phone in Turin’s bustling Porto Nouvo train station, Stu enunciated carefully: "Boo-Ohn-jee-Ohr-noh! Mee kee-AH-moh Stuart Wilson. PAHr-lah een-glAY-seh?" A voice responded. The word "momento" was discernable.

Sure enough a moment later another voice came on the line saying, "Yes, may I help you?"

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The masonry seems the work of an apprentice. Timbers are obviously hand-sawn, and rawhide fastens some joints. The bricks in the columns appear burned and irregular. We are strolling along the arcade of a building that housed the Franciscan Padres at La Mision de la Purisima Conception de la Santisima Virgen Maria, Madre de Dios y Nuestra Senora, otherwise known as ...

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Standing atop the Castillo’s San Carlos Bastion and peering across Matanzas Bay toward low-lying Anastasia Island, it wasn’t difficult to imagine the enemy fleet in the Atlantic beyond. Our guide, describing the Castillo’s defensive features while recounting the siege of 1740, gestured for us to look over the side as she pointed out...

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