Take a Walk with Birkenstock
Heckscher Park, Huntington, NY
A little more than 30 miles to the east of Emma Stebbins' Bethesda Fountain in NYC's Central Park, is the village of Huntington on Long Island. Huntington has long been the playground for people w...
Bethesda Fountain — Central Park, NYC
Completed in 1825, the Erie Canal was a spectacular civil engineering achievement. Shipping costs for raw materials and manufactured goods plummeted. Due to its location, New York City was transfor...
Little Sable Point Lighthouse - Mears, MI
Which state has the most lighthouses?
....Hint: it is a state with no oceanfront property.
When the Petite Pointe Au Sable Lighthouse was put into service in 1874 during the Ulysses S. Grant Ad...
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum — Grand Rapids, MI
President Gerald Ford was a good and honorable man, a refreshing change from and after Nixon resigned. Ford made a decision, which he thought correct, to pardon Richard Nixon for his crimes and co...
Millennium Park, Chicago IL
Chicago— the “City of the Big Shoulders,” ever-optimistic Cubs fan, industry, and the birthplace of modern architecture following the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
High culture intermingles wit...
Gloss Mountains State Park, Oklahoma
Today's word is escarpment. It is a geological term referring to the edge or steep slope between two landmasses formed either by erosion or uplift. A higher plateau might have harder surface rock...
Charles & Mary Ann (Molly) Goodnight Ranch House — Texas Panhandle
Howdy! If you have seen the classic Howard Hawks western Red River with John Wayne, you can imagine the magnitude of Charles Foxwing Goodnight's life. The television miniseries, Lonesome Dove, was...
Medicine Park, OK — "America's Cobblestone community"
Medicine Park is a historic resort community on the eastern fringe of the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. A young lawyer named Elmer Thomas, who later became an Oklahoma state senator, set up a...
The "Roosevelt Fountain" — South Park, Lawrence, KS
On a muggy humid day in August 115 years ago, America's most popular celebrity came to our town. He had just left Osawatomie, KS where he had delivered a 90-minute stem-winder speech. An estimated ...
