Scenes from a Few Days Around Charleston
The city of Charleston was founded in 1670, making it the oldest city in South Carolina. Given its early history, it’s a miracle it survived at all: smallpox in 1698; in 1699 an earthquake that caused …
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Scenes from Beaufort, South Carolina
Beaufort, South Carolina, has a lovely historic downtown district that sits along the Beaufort River and features many stately mansions. We had read that many of the porches have ceilings painted “haint blue,” so we …
Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home
Doug loves visiting authors’ homes, and so it was we found ourselves on the steps of the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home in Savannah, Georgia. Mary Flannery O’Connor lived at this 1856 home from her birth …
Select Scenes in and around Orlando, Florida
Doug will probably disagree, but I found the Florida Citrus Tower in Clermont to be completely underwhelming. It was $11 per person to ride up to the top and look out where Citrus trees used …
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park
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 …
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Scenes from Asheville, North Carolina
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 …
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Carl Sandburg Home
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 …
Edgar Allan Poe in Richmond
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 …
Scenes from Western Vermont
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 …
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A Few Sites along the Lower Hudson River in New York
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 …