The adventures of Jen and Doug and a black cat named Mr. Knightley.
As a kid, I remember on numerous family trips from our home in southern Pennsylvania passing by a historical marker in Carroll County, Md., that announced the location of the birthplace of Francis Scott Key. …
Winterthur, pronounced “winter-tour” and named after an ancestral home in Winterthur, Switzerland, is one of the famous du Pont-related estates in Wilmington, Del., (we also toured Hagley and Nemours, and they are very different experiences). …
There’s a lot going on at the Hagley Museum, the site of the first-built of the trifecta of remaining du Pont estates in Wilmington, Del. (the others being Winterthur and Nemours, both of which we …
The Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington, Del., was founded in 1912 and has a collection of more than 12,000 objects. It was founded in honor of famed illustrator and artist Howard Pyle, and contains many …
Harpers Ferry National Historic Park is a site that is rich in history. The town itself has lots of little village shops that you can see in any number of historical reenactment parks –- a …
Here is a collection of some of the sites we visited on our trip through Pennsylvania. Above is a photo of our van at a winery in eastern Pennsylvania — a very nice place to …
In 1844 John Rodney Brinkle built an Italianate mansion in Wilmington, Del., and named it Gibraltar for the high, rocky outcropping upon which it was built. 55 years later, Hugh Rodney Sharp and his wife Isabella …
On September 17, 1862, the Antietam Battlefield in Sharpsburg, Md., was the site of the bloodiest day in American history, when nearly 23,000 soldiers were killed, wounded, or missing after 12 hours of intense fighting, …
The Lincoln Highway is the first transcontinental highway in the U.S., running coast-to-coast from Times Square in New York City to Lincoln Park in San Francisco. It was also the first national memorial to President …
I majored in drama at college and spent the first dozen of my post-college years working in professional theater in New York City, so I have spent a considerable amount of time with William Shakespeare. …
