Back in Time: the Delmarva Peninsula
"Hey! Welcome to the New Castle court house, and to the 18th century. Today we're trying a case of failure to control a horse in a public place. You, sir,…
"Hey! Welcome to the New Castle court house, and to the 18th century. Today we're trying a case of failure to control a horse in a public place. You, sir,…
What do apples, black bears and rhododendrons have in common? They are, respectively, West Virginia's state fruit, state animal and state flower. There are state dogs, state insects, state dances…
Heading east on any U.S. highway feels wrong somehow, but nowhere more so than on what, since 2002, has been designated "The Historic National Road." Modern America was built from…
For my wife, no adventure is complete without a visit to the final resting place of some dead celebrity or other. Over the years, and I'm really not complaining here,…
Politicians speak of the "special relationship" between the U.S. and Britain; our soldiers fight side by side, we speak pretty much the same language, and these days we probably even…
My earliest memories of childhood holidays are of sitting in the back of our family's Ford Cortina, driving through France, and being suitably impressed whenever my dad knowledgably pointed out:…
Atlanta began life as an Indian village known as Standing Peachtree. It was the scene of a number of important Civil War battles before being razed in 1864 by General…