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 […]
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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 […]
A grand Glen Burnie
I grew up down Ritchie Highway from Glen Burnie. Known mostly for its shopping centers, comfortable neighborhoods — and my high school, it isn’t a place one would call grand. […]
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 […]
LET’S GO: The Williamsburg App
When you want to explore the 18th century it helps to have a 21st century tool. The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation has introduced its newly updated Colonial Williamsburg Explorer for smart […]
TIPSY TOURIST: George Washington’s whiskey
George Washington had led the army that defeated the world’s superpower of the 18th Century. He’d served as the first president of a newborn country. And then, after eight years in […]
Postcard from Chincoteague
Eyes of horse-lovers everywhere are on a little island on Virginia’s Eastern Shore today. The annual Chincoteague Pony Swim is legendary. And no wonder, watching the saltwater cowboys round up […]
A Tangier Island kind of day
You almost can’t get there from here. Tangier Island, a tiny speck in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay, far south where the bay is its widest, is more than an […]
Feet on the ground, reaching for the sky: Skyline Drive, a photo essay
With a long road trip ahead of us — one interstate right after another — we decided to start in the most civilized manner we could think of. The Skyline […]
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