A "Catcher in the Rye" Christmas

CNN has a story about folks who go to New York during the Christmas season and hit the spots that Holden Caulfield did in Salinger's most famous work.

From the story:

"The Catcher in the Rye," by J.D. Salinger, was published in 1951. But nearly all the landmarks Holden mentions as he wanders around Manhattan at Christmastime -- the Rockefeller Center skating rink, Radio City and the Rockettes, the zoo and carousel in Central Park, Grand Central, the American Museum of Natural History and the Metropolitan Museum of Art -- are still drawing holiday visitors more than a half-century later.

Also:

Ruth Freer, an English teacher at Highland Park High School, about 30 miles from Chicago, teaches "The Catcher in the Rye," and she created a "Holden tour" for herself on a visit to Manhattan not long ago. She took pictures of all the places mentioned in the book to share with her students.

Ah, if only I could live in the East, I could take a "Holden tour" myself, and, perhaps, even visit the town the reclusive Salinger lives.