Off the Beaten Track: Crooked Creek Civil War Museum
My day started with a man named Fred Wise, who dropped one cannonball after another into my hand. They were heavy! I didn’t need more than two examples to learn […]
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My Very Own Chocolate Mess
It’s hard to pass up chocolate. The inviting atmosphere and promise of Peruvian chocolate were too much for my daughter and I to resist. Our friend Carina agreed and we […]
Shame Masks
In Rothenburg ob der Tauber, a medieval city in the Franconia region of Germany, it is easy to walk along the cobblestone paths that wind through the town and consider […]
Viking Ships in Oslo & Cincinnati
It was my great pleasure to visit the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo. I’d arranged to meet with Margrethe, a graduate student who works at the museum and gave my […]
I Willingly Entered the House of Terror Museum
Though I’ve been to three concentration camps and several Holocaust museums, I’ve never seen footage as disturbing as what I saw in the very first room of the House of […]
“The World’s Largest Graveyard” – Catacombs of Paris
My third trip down into the tunnels of the Catacombs of Paris was no less macabre than my first visit. Seeing the stacked skulls and femurs of 6 million […]
You’ll Need to Sip from the Fountain of Youth to See All St. Augustine Has to Offer!
Founded in 1565, St. Augustine, Florida is America’s oldest city. Rich with history and culture, it’s nearly impossible to see all that the city has to offer. There is something […]
It Was Surreal – Wandering Through the Verbeke Foundation
sur·re·al·ism a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images The Verbeke […]
Christmas Comes to Santa Claus
Santa Claus, Indiana, that is. The town named for the iconic Christmas figure definitely knows how to celebrate the holiday season. The three December weekends before Christmas are filled with […]
I Was Delia Mahon
My name was Delia Mahon. I was a 20-year-old woman taking 3rd-class passage aboard the Titanic on April 11, 1912. I boarded at Queenstown (now Cobh), headed for New York. […]
