Archive for August, 2010
Border Flowers

A LONDON ESCAPE PACKED WITH CULTURE AND FUN

by Francoise Yohalem and Mary Gallagher with photos by Mary Gallagher The end of winter-early spring is a great time to journey to London. After my not visiting for more than two decades, an irresistible travel bargain with Virgin Vacations for a 4 day...

Beach Front Villas

All Natural Amelia Island Plantation

Story and photos by Andrew Der Let’s be honest – most of us totally ignore north Florida on our way southward to its lavish and sometimes overwhelmed tropical beaches. If so, we are doing ourselves a great disservice especially if the goal is...

Kentucky Map

Historic Purple Bridge Opens for Foot Traffic Between Kentucky and Ohio

by Mary Gallagher America’s only pedestrian bridge linking two states opened April 26th connecting Cincinnati, Ohio and Newport, Kentucky and let me tell you it is great and the perfect plan for an old bridge! The color is pretty hysterical at first...

Float

Mobile, Southwest Alabama’s Scintillating Seaport

By Dorothea S. Michelman Mobile, which celebrated its tricentennial just last year, owes its name to a happy juxtaposition of cross-cultural communication and historic circumstance. A variation on the familiar story of tourists stumbling over words in...

St. Lawrence Seaway Map

SACKETS HARBOR BREWING COMPANY and Historic Sackets Harbor

By Carey Tucker There’s nothing quite like having an unexpected day off in the middle of summer. For those of us who precede their job titles with the word ‘freelance’, these days are sometimes self-directed. In any event, it was...