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Knoxville A City Of Orange
2007-12-27 04:09:30
Knoxville was a fortified outpost, capital of the Southwest Territory and later of the state of Tennessee. It is named after Henry Knox who was President George Washington’s War Secretary. The city furnished the political and intellectual leadership for Unionist East Tennessee when the region struggled to remain loyal to ...

A Glorious Day for Our Country: On the Trail of America's First Christmas
2007-12-23 04:48:04
Story & Photos by Richard Grant It is forever Christmas at McKonkey’s Ferry Inn. The dining room in this lovely tavern, located on the banks of the Delaware River, 42 miles upstream from Philadelphia, is always decorated exactly as it would have been on Christmas night, 1776, when George Washington ...
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Coast-to-Coast Across Canada... 4,000 Miles by Rail
2007-12-19 01:14:16
by Jim Loomis In the broad protected harbor of Halifax, Nova Scotia, General Sir William Howe organized the invasion fleet that captured New York City in 1776. During two world wars, convoys of merchant ships loaded with the men and material of war assembled here before setting out for England ...

Unspoiled Florida, Charlotte Harbor and the Gulf Islands
2007-12-17 03:40:14
Perfect for nature lovers By Phyllis Steinberg Most of South Florida’s coast is dotted with hi-rise condominiums, immense hotels that block the skyline and crowded highways. Charlotte Harbor and the Gulf Islands are different. Located on Florida’s Southwest Gulf coast, this nature lover’s destination is about 50 miles south of ...

Valencia: From Oranges to Operas
2007-12-16 15:31:38
By Bob Schulman Is it a Martian spaceport? A movie set from Star Wars? An outdoor museum of modern art? Whatever it is, it's hardly a place you'd expect to run across in a two-thousand-year-old Spanish port on the Mediterranean. Visitors to Valencia typically expect to find a town packed ...

Editor's Column: WITH FEW RESERVATIONS
2007-12-16 12:55:30
BEING PREPARED Once in a while someone who has read something I’ve published elsewhere will urge me to share it with our growing SoGoNow loyalists. This month I decided to do the deed. I chose this particular piece because I felt many readers might have a similar feeling of being ...

Chiapas Runs Hot and Cold for Tourists
2007-12-13 03:25:23
By Bob Schulman Some half-million people live in the balmy Mexican city of Tuxtla Gutierrez, and tonight it looks like every one of them has shown up at a downtown square known as Marimba Park. Surrounded by dancers, musicians are beating out hip-shaking salsas, merengues and socas on the wooden ...

1000 Years in Budapest
2007-12-10 02:54:35
By Kathleen Hegedus Kings and Queens and medieval battles, Hungary has seen all of that! This is a story of foreign occupation, revolution, the struggle to reclaim territory, and the fight for freedom! The first stop on the chronological tour of Budapest is the Basilica of St. Istvan. In 895, ...

A Mediterranean Cruise With Almost No Clothes
2007-12-07 02:25:20
By Barry Bassis and Demetra Pappas Photos by Demetra Pappas We never understood people who rush from the airport to the cruise ship and then do the reverse when they disembark. Our recommendation is to begin pampering yourself at a luxury hotel and explore an interesting city before you set ...

To the Moon, Alice, and Beyond
2007-12-05 05:36:00
Huntsville, Alabama By Sheree Bykofsky What do George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Tom Hanks, and Ron Howard have in common (besides from being two-legged humans on the planet Earth)? You guessed it. Their children all attended space camp at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville. At space camp, ...

Beautiful Kauai
2007-12-03 02:35:53
By Sheila O’Connor Not everything improves with age. But the island of Kauai certainly does. The fourth largest and oldest of the Hawaiian islands and estimated to be around 5.1 million years old, Kauai, the island paradise, just seems to get more beautiful as it gets older. The island emerged ...

Blueprint of a Fantasy at Sea
2007-11-30 03:52:57
by Maxine Sommers When I first viewed the “Queen Mary 2” I was stunned by her size- a veritable giant. As I viewed it at the dock in New York my first word was WOW! Indeed it appeared to be the size of a small city that just happened to ...

Coeur D'Alene Resort Golf Course
2007-11-28 03:34:02
By Sheila O’Connor Want to play on America's “most beautiful course” and the “best conditioned course in America”? Then you can play both at once. Because the Coeur D'Alene has won both these accolades and it’s a course in Idaho that’s well worth playing. Wind is a factor on ...

IMPERIAL LONDON: The best of Britannia in an uncommon week
2007-11-26 01:07:31
by Linda Fasteson … Where have you been? I've been to London to visit the Queen. No, it wasn’t by royal invitation, but we did encounter the royal family. In what is becoming an increasingly homogenized world, London reigns supreme with a pageantry known to most of us only in ...

Christmas in Branson, Missouri
2007-11-23 02:02:36
Branson is big on entertainment By Phyllis Steinberg Christmas festivities in most American cities begins after the Thanksgiving feast, but in Branson, Missouri, you can expect the holiday season to be in full swing by the first week in November. The myriad of live music shows, nearly 100 of them ...

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