Luray Caverns
Visiting Luray Caverns in Luray, Va., had me thinking of the line delivered by Randal Graves in Clerks: “This job would be great if it wasn’t for the [bleeping] customers.” For Luray Caverns would be …
Category: Museums
The Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Neither of us are big country music fans in particular, but since we’re open to all kinds of experiences, we thought we ought to stop at a place labeled the “birthplace” of country music. I …
O. Winston Link & Roanoke History Museum
I’m not even sure how the O. Winston Link & Roanoke History Museum wound up on our radar, but it was a quite a gem. The museum features the work of photographer O. Winston Link …
Architecture / Art / Authors / Museums / Music
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 …
Apple Valley Model Railroad Club
The Apple Valley Model Railroad Club in Hendersonville, N.C. is busy keeping a whole lot of men out of trouble and engaged in building and maintaining a large model train layout in the historic 1902 …
Architecture / Books / History / Museums
The Foxfire Museum
The Foxfire Museum in Mountain City, Ga., must have one of the most unique origin stories I’ve ever heard. In 1966, an English teacher at Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School created a magazine with his students, researching …
Delta Flight Museum
As a former Delta frequent flier (I’m still a fan, but my greatly-reduced post-pandemic travel needs no longer qualify as an elite), I have spent a lot of time on Delta flights and have been …
The Road to Tara Museum
Gone With the Wind (GWTW) by Margaret Mitchell, the American classic published in 1936, is set in Atlanta and Clayton County, Ga. The Road to Tara Museum is in Jonesboro, Ga., in the heart of …
Select Sites in North Carolina
Doug and I had both listened to Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights by Gretchen Sullivan Sorin. The book was eye-opening and heartbreaking, to say the least. It tells …
Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site
I’m not gonna lie, I’d never heard of Maggie Lena Walker, but the National Park Service made a historic site of her home, and we were in Richmond, Va., so off we trundled for a …