Talk at the Harriet Beecher Stowe House
Ponder this: a roomful of people have congregated to discuss the issue of slavery and whether the slaveholders in the southern states of the U.S. were civil and humane. Some […]
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Category Archives: Museums & Tours
The Tri-State Warbird Museum
Just like the times I visited Dayton’s National Air Force Museum with my son, I knew I wanted to tour Cincinnati’s Tri-State Warbird Museum with him, too. I wanted to see […]
Airstream – (Hand)made in America
With Airstream, every day has a silver lining As soon as I approached the Airstream factory in Jackson Center, Ohio, all I saw was a field of silver glinting in […]
UNESCO Heritage Site: Mosteiro da Batalha
Batalha Monastery — the burial church of Portuguese royalty. It took over a century to build, with fifteen architects adding their influence along the way. Work began in 1386. The […]
Your Carriage Awaits…
The minute I stepped inside the National Coach Museum, I felt like I’d entered a fairytale. Cinderella’s pumpkin coach had nothing on these! These were the carriages of Kings and […]
1919 – The Year That Changed Baseball
I think you all know by now that I love Cincinnati. I also love baseball. And Cincinnati loves its Reds. What I didn’t know was how pivotal events in 1919 […]
Austin Detours
All trips to Austin should begin with a Detour. That is the PERFECT tagline for what Austin Detours is about! Their concept is simple: We’re different, because Austin is. A […]
Recognizing the Red Cross
It was 3:00am. My phone rang. I could barely make sense of the sound as it roused me from a deep sleep. I groggily answered. “Julie? There’s an apartment fire […]
An Old-Fashioned Christmas
It’s wonderful to venture out and see all the light displays of the Christmas season. But at Heritage Village Museum in Cincinnati, they decorate a little differently: the historical houses […]
Leaving London for a Day: Windsor Castle, Stonehenge and Bath
One of the most popular day excursions from London that I found includes visits to three iconic spots, two of which are UNESCO World Heritage sites: Stonehenge, Windsor Castle, and […]
