The adventures of Jen and Doug and a black cat named Mr. Knightley.
The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park is located in Cross Creek, Florida, and it’s where you can tour the cracker-style home where the Pulitzer Prize-winning author lived for 25 years. The homestead is currently …
Though Doug and I have been to Asheville before, we steered the van there again because it’s where Doug’s lifetime friend Andrew lives. Doug and Andrew have been friends since before junior high, which means …
Carl Sandburg was a major poet of the early twentieth century, publishing more than 15 collections and winning two Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry, becoming known in his lifetime as the “Poet of the People.” But …
Just two short months ago we visited the Poe House in Baltimore, so of course we made sure to visit the Poe Museum in Richmond, Va. If you refresh yourself on that story, you’ll recall …
Wilson Alwyn Bentley (1865–1931) was an American farmer known for his photography, but not of the usual subjects. Instead, he was the first person to take detailed photographs of snowflakes and record their features. He …
Nestled right along the Hudson River in Tarrytown, N.Y., sits Washington Irving’s Sunnyside home. The home, purchased as a small stone farmhouse in 1835, sits on 10 acres, and is a mixture of Dutch Colonial …
I grew up on the Jersey Shore, living in Forked River until I graduated college. My parents moved a town over to Whiting not long after, where my grandparents were living in a retirement home. …
By a totally crazy coincidence, Doug and I were visiting Baltimore at the same time as our lovely and adventurous friends Don and Jen. Don was in town for a conference, so we only got …
While in Baltimore we visited the H. L. Mencken House. As so often happens in our relationship, I’ve never heard of H.L. Mencken and Doug is all “Oh, I know Mencken, I’d love to tour …
Doug and I went all in on the Edgar Allan Poe sites in Baltimore. Poe died at just 40 years of age under mysterious circumstances in Baltimore, Md. We listened to an excellent book, A …
