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Scott Arboretum of SwarthmoreCollege comprises 100 acres ofgreenery, including the Dean BondRose Garden and its 200-plusvarieties of roses.

Urban Outfitters Inc. takes fashionback to nature with Terrain at Styer’s,the company’s first greenhouse andgardening store.

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At the Newlin Grist Mill, visit amill from 1704, a blacksmith shopand stocked streams for angling.

Ridley Creek State Park boasts more than2,600 acres of woodlands and meadows forhiking and biking, plus trout fishing on the creek.

The Brandywine River Museumhouses regional and American art,including works by three generationsof Wyeths, in a 19th-century gristmill.

All’s quiet on Brandywine Battlefield’sfront: The former Revolutionary War site is nowa tranquil park dotted with historic structures,such as George Washington’s headquarters.

The 120-acre Rose Tree Parkhosts the Summer Festival, aseries of 50 free concerts inan outdoor amphitheater.

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RoadTrip See the Forest for the Treehouses in Pennsylvania

WHERE: Southeastern Pennsylvania

WHY: Houses in trees, berry pickin’ and fashionable gardening.

HOW FAR: About 38 miles from start to finish, and 130 miles fromWashington.

This summer, go climb a treehouse. Two garden centers inpastoral Pennsylvania are staging fanciful exhibitions of ar-boreal abodes: Tyler Arboretum is hosting “Totally TerrificTreehouses” through Sept. 28, while Longwood Gardens is

displaying “Nature’s Castles” through Nov. 23. “Families and children are really enjoying the opportunity to get

out into the forest and have a pleasant experience,” says Rick Col-bert, executive director of Tyler Arboretum. “The entire DelawareValley region is what we call a hotbed of horticulture.”

At the arboretum, local designers and builders conceived of andcreated 17 eclectic treehouses. Creativity is the common denom-inator: Scared Silly, for example, is a 15-foot-high pink elephant en-twined in a tree; Arboreal Amphibians consists of a posse of colorful

fiberglass frogs spaced around a glen; and Hanging Out features agrove of trees strung with hammocks ideal for hot, lazy weekends.The exhibit is set among towering cedars, spruces, pines and birch-es, some of which were planted in the 1850s by the arboretum’sfounding family, the Painters.

Fifteen miles to the west, Pierre du Pont’s Longwood Gardenshas transformed its own trees and grounds into a trio of upscaleshelters, including the Lookout Loft, an Adirondack-style retreat;the Canopy Cathedral, a two-story structure inspired by a Norwe-gian church; and the Birdhouse, which is not just for the birds.

— Ben Chapman

Road Trip maps are available at www.washingtonpost.com/roadtrip, as are addresses and hours of operation. (Be

sure to check before you go.) Have an idea for a trip? E-mailroadtrip@washpost.com.

ONLINE GALLERY | To see more of Pennsylvania’s treehouses, check out the photo gallery at www.washingtonpost.com/source.

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“He spent an hour or two a day buried in his

Riverside Shakespeare, reading the plays, but

mostly he smoked hash in his room and listened

to music, living off his father’s increasingly

reluctant benefaction.”

— Greenberg just says yes.

The author, a founding member

of the Reduced Shakespeare

Company, pulls off a potentially

clumsy conceit with nuance and

panache, as the lives of our two

Williams intersect across time and

space with mind-bending results.

The novel interweaves tales of Willie Shakespeare

Greenberg, a sex-crazed slacker master’s candi-

date cum novice drug runner in 1980s California,

and 18-year-old William Shakespeare, sex-crazed

Latin teacher and aspiring writer in

16th-century Stratford-upon-Avon.

My Name Is Will: A Novel of Sex,Drugs, and Shakespeare By Jess Winfi eld

Twelve

$23.99

The character of Greenberg grates,

and the surfeit of bawdy puns, while

certainly Shakespearean, becomes

tiresome.

— Reviewed by Adriana Leshko

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“Hugh’s eyes met hers and she felt an inner jolt.

For an instant it seemed that another possible

future life was held between them like a stream

of light. A tantalizing series of images, like a

movie or a glossy magazine.”

— Struggling mother Chloe reconsiders an old fl ame

This is throwaway fi ction at its fi nest:

Those in search of a quick, easy

vacation read that won’t tax their

brains (or make them think potentially

icky thoughts about their own lives and

marriages) could do much worse.

The chick-lit phenom (best known

by her pseudonym, Sophie Kinsella)

spins a tale of romantic intrigue

set at a villa in Spain, where two

families with intertwining histories

unwittingly converge, thanks to

the meddling of a rich friend.

SleepingArrangementsBy Madeleine

Wickham

St. Martin’s

$24.95

Half of the characters are just

names on the page, so one-dimen-

sional that they and their troubles

vanish from your mind at story’s

end. Dialogue that seems plucked straight out of

a romance novel doesn’t help.

— Sara Cardace

“Hey, what are you gonna

do / When those bombs

are falling down / Falling

down on you”

— “Walls”

This is Beck’s usual ADD indie pop, operating

at maximum strength. It’s larded with his usual

nods to surf and psych rock, prog, funk and ev-

erything in between. What else to expect: ironic

detachment, that robot thing he does and lyrics

you won’t understand.

Beck collaborates with Danger Mouse, the

go-to producer for down-at-the-heel hipster

acts who need to get their mojo back.

Modern GuiltBeck

Interscope

$13.98

If you don’t like Beck, this busy-even-for-him

offering won’t convince you otherwise.

— Allison Stewart

“Standin’ on a corner / Got my bucket in my hand /

Lookin’ for a woman / That ain’t got no man”

— Hank Williams’s “My Bucket’s Got a Hole in It”

It’s every bit as great as you’d think:

a genial, unforced disc staking out

territory somewhere between jazz

and country. The camaraderie seems

effortless: Wynton makes Willie seem

kind of classy; Willie makes Wynton

seem less somber.

This live recording, taken from the musicians’

joint two-night stand at Jazz at Lincoln Center in

January 2007, tackles standards from

Hoagy Carmichael to

Clarence Williams.

Two Men With the BluesWillie Nelson and

Wynton Marsalis

Blue Note

$18.98

It’s a little repetitive in spots, but

come on: Willie and Wynton?

Covering Hank and Hoagy? How

bad could it be?

— A.S.

“And is that what my life is doomed to be?

Trying to recreate my old life as closely

as possible, just so that I can get back to

square one? Do I have to do it all again?

Even the mistakes?”

Using clever layout tricks, Robinson gets

incredible mileage out of an 1980s teen movie

plot device, and his dialogue manages to give an

equal measure of humanity to both the adults

and adolescents in the story.

Forty-something smoker Andy

Wicks undergoes hypnotherapy

to kick the habit, only to fi nd

himself having to relive his teen-

age years after being psychically

teleported back to 1985.

Too Cool to Be ForgottenBy Alex Robinson

Top Shelf

$14.95

Even though it leads to the comic book’s most

heartfelt moment, the eleventh-hour transition

from high school remembrance to rumination on

mortality feels jarring.

— Evan Narcisse

“Shoot your mouth off now,

Deadshot!”

— Our hero takes aim at one of his enemies

Batman cartoons have never looked so

dynamic or beautiful. The disc offers fans

a Batcave’s worth of bonuses, including

four of the best episodes from the

1990s’ “Batman: The Animated Series.”

Top-notch comics

scribes and screenwriters

team with Japanese anime

directors to spin six stories

about the Caped Crusader

(voiced by Kevin Conroy).

Batman: Gotham Knight (Two-Disc Collector’s Edition)Rated PG-13

Warner Bros.

$29.98

With all of the talent involved, it’s disappointing

to see that only two of the segments have stories

that come close to matching the stunning visuals.

A word of caution: Much of the material is prob-

ably too disturbing for young children.

— Greg Zinman

“I signed up thinking I was going

to go over there and protect my

country, my family. Wanted

payback for 9/11.”

— King opens up to his army buddy’s fi ancee (Abbie Cornish)

Director Kimberly Peirce

(“Boys Don’t Cry”) re-

turns with a story about

Staff Sgt. Brandon King (Ryan Phillippe), a soldier

who has come home to Texas after an awful tour

in Iraq. When the government wants to send him

back, he goes AWOL.

Stop-LossRated R

Paramount

$34.99

The fi lm loses its grip once it leaves Tikrit and

Texas and becomes a road movie, and the end-

ing will strike many as an egregious cop-out.

— G.Z.

In addition to your three

main attack modes,

you can fi nd neat ways

to unleash new disas-

ters, such as rumbling the

ground near a hot spot to

make a volcano erupt.

It’s your typical tale of

a scientist who takes

revenge on the company

that stole his patents by

attacking its leaders’

homes with a weather

machine.

With all the real-world storms, fi res and fl oods

that have ravaged the country recently, a

tongue-in-cheek disaster game might hit a little

too close to home for some.

— Christopher Healy

The fi lm’s depiction of the

soldiers’ post-traumatic

stress disorder is harrow-

ing and brought into vivid

relief by an excellent cast.

Elements of DestructionXbox 360

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