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 […]
Category Archives: Perfect Small Towns
‘Michael’ the movie angel was here in Gruene, TX
That was all I needed to hear. The movie “Michael.“—you know, the one about an angel on earth and the tabloid reporters who investigated— filmed a scene just up the […]
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 […]
The house where Patsy Cline launched her singing career
Virginia Patterson Hensley walked out the front door of her little white house and, with her mother, went to New York City to become a star forever known as Patsy […]
Dinner with Eastern Shore history
I could almost hear the stagecoach pulling up outside and the bustle of passengers gathering their belongings for a night in this 18th Century Eastern Shore town. We’d escaped crowds […]
POSTCARD from the fountains at Longwood
The fountains at Longwood Gardens, in the Brandywine Valley near Wilmington, Del., were always part of the magic of the place. Lavish like everything else, their waters sprayed and sparkled […]
The ice cream experience
One trip to the Turkey Hill Experience would have been plenty if all we did was wander through the exhibits and finish at the gift shop. But ice cream is […]
A cup of colonial coffee
Research can be so wearing. So many questions. So many notes. Long days. Oh the tedium. Except when you’re doing that research in Colonial Williamsburg. I returned from three days […]
American road trip: Tell me where to go
Planning a cross-country trip for next summer. Fifty Nifty United States and all that (although, I sigh, Hawaii and Alaska are off the table). So tell me, where should my […]
Book/author love in Boonsboro
I got up early on Saturday to drive the 60 miles to Boonsboro for a book signing at Turn the Pages Bookstore featuring Nora Roberts, along with bestselling authors Mary Kay […]
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