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 …
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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 …
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 …
Eating Our Way Across North Carolina
One of the experiences (often tasty, occasionally “interesting”) we seek out on the road is sampling regional delicacies. These can be local specialties or historical dishes that originated in a particular region. Here is a …
“Hit Bull Win Steak”
If you’re a baseball fan, or a movie fan, or a baseball movie fan, then you probably can figure out where we visited by the headline of this post. For the rest of you, we …
The Duke University Chapel
The Duke University Chapel in Durham, N.C., was built from 1930-1935 at a cost of nearly $2.3 million (more than $30 million today). It is built in the English Gothic style, using bluestone from North …
Sarah P. Duke Gardens
The Duke Gardens in Durham, N.C., consist of 55 acres of landscaped and wooded areas. They are free to enter, though cheap parking must be paid. There were a couple of areas of absolute “wow” …
Searching for Andrew Jackson’s Birthplace
Andrew Jackson, the problematic seventh President of the United States, was born in 1767 in South Carolina, at the plantation farm belonging to his mother’s sister and her husband, the Crawfords. Or maybe he was …
Camping with Barbie
We spent the night (literally) with the new Barbie movie in appropriate van life style! The Raleigh Road Outdoor Theatre in North Carolina participates in the Harvest Hosts program, so we were able to reserve …
North Carolina Transportation Museum
The North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, N.C., is dedicated to all forms of transportation. Located in former railyard of Southern Railway that dates to the 1890s, the museum now includes automobiles and aircraft in …