One summer day in 1995, Andy Miller was standing beside a newly constructed tilt-wall wondering how he would raise it into place when a fledgling Ohio State football player emerged from the woods to lend a hand. Four-months later, construction …
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The American Rivera Film Festival by Barbara Singer
Santa Barbara, California is a paradise, where you can embrace endless pleasures of California landscape from the foothills of the Santa Ynez Mountains to wine vineyards and the Pacific coastline. It’s a classical city that reflects its dramatic Spanish history. …
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Southern Hospitality in Savannah & Hilton Head
I have written about many Southern cities in the past few years including Oklahoma City, Knoxville, Birmingham, Norfolk, Virginia Beach, New Orleans, Myrtle Beach, Raleigh, Charlotte, Houston and Jacksonville. As a born-and-raised frenetic New Yorker I found many things to …
Russian River Inns: Hidden Gems of California Wine Country by Emma Krasov
Photography by Yuri Krasov Case Ranch Inn is a dollhouse retreat in a relatively remote part of Napa Valley. A short drive away from the hustle and bustle of excessive wine tasting, it’s nestled in one of the tiny towns …
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Carpe Diem – Seize the Day by Michael Levy
Children do not think about time in the same way as older folks. They are too busy playing games and chatting with their friends. They grow into adults who gain responsibilities and commitments. As adults, there is no time to …
Oceanside Hospitality in Canada’s Gaspésie
“And to Percé, I shall return one day.” This was the last verse of a poem I wrote when I was eight years old. For our annual summer vacation that year, my parents had driven the family to Percé, an …
Whooping It Up With the Cranes in Rockport, Texas by Mary Walker Clark
We were up before daylight headed for the boat excursion. Most passengers arrived with coffee in hand. The real birders also had their extensive equipment – Swarovski binoculars harnessed to their backs, cameras with large extended zoom lenses, tripods, bird …
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Our Trip to St. Louis, Mo by Sarah Brewster
I am going to tell you about Troup 5483’s end of the year trip to St. Louis. We started at Bellevue public Library at 6:00 in the morning and left around 6:15-6:20 for St Louis, Mo. When we got there …
Seattle’s Alki Beach
It rains so often in Seattle that some residents like to say that they don’t tan in the summer, they rust. But when the sun inevitably does come out, many locals, as well as the visiting camera-clicking curious, flock to …
Tales of the Cocktail by Ron Kapon
I learned that New Orleans was the birthplace of the cocktail. Antoine Amedee Peychaud, a French planter and pharmacist, was forced to flee the Caribbean island of Santo Domingo during the Black Rebellion of 1793. He relocated to New Orleans …
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