Category: Travel
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Stories from the Road: An Object Lesson for My Daughter in Holding Firm
In the Plaza Midwood section of Charlotte stands a dive bar called Thirsty Beaver Saloon. It is dwarfed and surrounded by a multistory townhome complex. The neighborhood has changed in the seven years since I was an Uber driver in Charlotte. It was sort of an eclectic, working-class area with quirky shops and bars and…
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Eagle’s Landing: A Place Where Dreams Soared
When Stephen and Viola moved their their three children to the two-story corner lot in Wapakoneta, Ohio in 1944, it became the place that Neil Armstrong holed up in his room to read everything he could about aviation. It was at the local airport that Neil Armstrong learned to fly. In fact, he went on…
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Stories from the Road: Memories from an Old Gas Pump
For a cool $2000, it can be yours. Cheap at half the price, but this relic of the past spark at least a half dozen priceless memories of long ago.
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St. Teresa of Avila, Cincinnati, Ohio
The ability to walk into a sanctuary is always a treat for me, and I was able to do that during an afternoon visit to the Price Hill neighborhood of Cincinnati.
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Around the Block: Price Hill Neighborhood, Cincinnati, Ohio
Annexed by Cincinnati in 1870, the Delhi and Storrs townships became a haven for the well-to-do of the city. Located on a hill to the west overlooking the city, it offered a chance for the wealthy to hide, in a sense, from the steamboat traffic and hogs and pollution and crowds. Welch immigrant Rees Price…
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Grub on the Road Food Friday: Lemonade Stands
It was a hot and muggy summer afternoon. It was the kind of day made for a lemonade stand.
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Stories from the Road: A Field, a Coach, a Place where Legends Played
A walk around and unfamiliar town took me to a place for baseball legends were made. The legends of Western Hill
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Around the Block: Liberty, Indiana
A stop for ice cream turned into an early evening walk around the Union County Courthouse square in Liberty, Indiana