Wow! Smithsonian’s Udvar-Hazy Center jam packed with air and space marvels
How many times can you say WOW! in one afternoon? After a couple hours at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near Dulles Airport in Chantilly, Va., I was sounding like a […]
Category Archives: Museums
Capital shopping and eating in Lahaina
Most of our Maui adventure was spent on the water or on the beach. But we had to explore the town closest to our resort. Lahaina was the capital of the […]
Ward Museum: making wood fly
Decoy carvers have an uncanny ability to make wood fly. They slice away bits until a duck or goose or egret emerges, spreads its wings and takes off. Don’t believe […]
Dazzled by plexiglas and string
It was cold in Baltimore. Single-digit cold. Even so I wasn’t spending Sunday afternoon at home. My husband and I opted for brunch and art at the Baltimore Museum of […]
The many scenes of Christmas
A story about a baby being born in a little town in the Middle East has sparked the imagination of artists too numerous to count. One of the ways they […]
Movie magic at Warner Brothers Studio
I couldn’t go to Los Angeles without seeing where the magic is made. Walking around the sound stages, prop shop, and sets of Warner Brothers Studio, I felt as if […]
Grammy Museum celebrates the best
If you love music, any kind really, you’ve got to put the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles on your must-see list. And then plan on spending a few hours here […]
National museum honors African-American history, culture
Step into the gigantic elevator at the National Museum of African-American History and Culture and take a trip through time as you go down into the bowels of the museum. In […]
Old Town Winchester: shopping and history
Petula Clark once sang a song praised the sights and sounds of Downtown. “Things will be great when you’re downtown.” I’m dating myself but I was a really little kid […]
Postcard for the Fourth of July
Reading L.G. Shreve’s wonderful biography of Tench Tilghman for an upcoming novel, I ran across this quote, a tribute to loyalty. “Perhaps a clue to the closeness of the relationship between […]
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