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Diversity Plaza, in Jackson Heights in the New York borough of Queens, is a landmark…
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By Teresa Bergen Jason Spoolstra stands with his back to a mural of Jesus welcoming…
By Toby Saltzman What sounded like a pickup line turned out to be friendly banter…
By Teresa Bergen As I enter the Terror Ship, the captain tells me that he…
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By Liz Campbell The room is full, and every foot is tapping. One musician plucks…
By Chuck Cecil America’s newest National Park in West Virginia’s New River Gorge offers an…
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It’s been said that Canadians speak like Americans, spell like the British, and throw in…
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By Jian Huang Subiaco, Arkansas is small even for a small town. Located about 100…
Count me among the droves of disappointed summer travelers whose vacations were devastated by long…
When I first moved to Portland, Oregon, in the early 1990s, one of my first…
In 2013, when Detroit declared bankruptcy it was plagued by violent crime and racial division.…
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People living in cramped urban apartments are discovering they can earn just as much money…
Mardi Gras is on again! New Orleans’ signature event, with its floats, marching bands and…
By Jacqueline Swartz Back in 2020, a pandemic swept over much of the globe. People…
Want to learn the real history of Hollywood? Then skip the freak show along the…
The Underground Railroad brought thousands of escaped African slaves to Chatham, Ontario during the early…
Why visit Santa Catalina Island at the onset of winter when it’s too cold to…
By Mira Temkin Mother Nature has pummeled Galveston repeatedly since 1900, but the Gulf Coast…
Around the world, cemeteries are recognizing the importance of inviting the public inside graveyard gates.…
By Mark Orwoll Fall just knocked on our door and didn’t wait for an invitation…
Havana was just what I expected. A city blended with images of vintage cars, cigar-smoking…
By David DeVoss We live in a disconnected age where colors define politics and words…
By Rich Grant At just 36 miles in length, the Niagara is one of the…
The taxi driver greets me with, “How’s she gettin’ on?” (How are you?), then introduces…
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The Civil War formally ended on April 9, 1865 when Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered…
By Tyler Melito It happens every spring. Thirty Major League Baseball (MLB) teams take the…
By Mark Orwoll The summer of 2021 is full of hope and promise. If vaccinations…
By Alexander Eisman America’s first traffic-protected, coast-to-coast biking and hiking trail will link both sides…
By Tyler Melito Black History Month is a time to remember the significant contributions Afro…
By Barbara Beckley “This is the spot! Here on the tarmac where William Shatner, Christopher…
By Liz Campbell More than Chicken Wings Once one of the country’s most prosperous cities…
By Rich Grant “Wild Bill” Hickok, of Dakota’s most boisterous boomtown, was such a romantic…
Four of our greatest presidents. Or two slave owners, a racist and an Indian killer?…
Toronto’s skyline is dominated by its signature structure, the CN Tower. At 1,750 feet high,…
Not every guest at White Stallion Ranch schedules an equine-intensive day, but for me,…
The Greatest Show on Earth may be the Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, as seen…
By Ben Oleksinski There are some places in the world where political boundaries don’t prevent…
“Three cities, two countries, one region”, remarked former Texas State Senator Jose Rodriquez referring to…
By Kirsten Hahn Jennifer Payne seemingly had it all. A 40-year old stay at home…
By David DeVoss When travel began to plummet in mid February airlines responded in…
Freelance members of the Society of American Travel Writers interested in agritourism in the Tohoku…
By David DeVoss If baseball is played in Heaven it probably resembles spring training in…
Spring Training baseball opens in Arizona this week with 15 teams playing more than 200…
Revisionist history once was associated with Soviet Russia, where leaders repeatedly erased the names of…
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California Declares War By David DeVoss To hear governor Jerry Brown tell it, California is…
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