When you want to have lunch in the town park or any national theme parks it is best to brign a salad and sandwich. You can pull out the deli meat and condiments easily straight from the cooler and just make the salads ahead of time. All you have to do is toss a green [...]
One thing everyone agrees on is that beautiful Telluride knows how to party. Nestled in a remote box canyon in the San Juan Mountains toward the southern end of the Rockies, the city came into being as a mining outpost in the 1870s. A hundred years later, it turned over a new leaf as a [...]
Hop aboard the St. Charles Avenue streetcar. It is the nation’s oldest continuously operating line for a swaying ride toward the legendary nightlife of the French Quarter. You can ride in jazz, indulgent host of Mardi Gras, capital of creole cooking and take-out margaritas — the Big Easy has been teaching the rest of America [...]
One of the main highlights of New Orleans is a fun day at the Audubon Zoo. The Spanish-moss-draped environment re-creates a gator-infested marsh, complete with fat catfish; giant, ratlike nutria; and extremely rare white alligators. Also at home in the zoo, located within the Crescent City’s vast Frederick Law Olmsted-designed urban oasis: Bengal tigers, Malayan [...]
More than 12 million immigrants passed through Ellis Island between 1892 and 1954. Many Americans can trace their immigrant ancestors through Ellis Island. Ellis Island, now a 27.5-acre site located just minutes off the southern tip of Manhattan Island, New York, is likely to connect with more of the American population than any other spot [...]
“Society is not fair, until was make it so.” This has been the battle cry of the civil action groups who fought in the labor history of the America. The Haymarket donnybrook began at Chicago’s McCormick Reaper factory on May 3, 1886, when police killed two workers while intervening in a fight between strikers (demonstrating [...]
The famous Edmund Pettus Bridge was named after Edmund Winston Pettus, a Confederate Brigadier general and an eventual U.S. Senator. It is infamous as the site of the conflict of Bloody Sunday (March 7, 1965), where armed officers attacked peaceful civil rights demonstrators. It is the landmark of civil rights movement as it has played [...]
The first major project of the Wyoming State Historical Society is Esther Hobart Morris’ statue in the Statuary Hall in Washington, D.C. The July 2, 1864 law creating National Statuary Hall reads, in part: “The States to provide and furnish statues, in marble or bronze, not exceeding two in number for each state, of deceased [...]
Henry David Thoreau‘s experience at Walden from July 1845 to September 1847 provided him all the resources he needed for his book, Walden. Because of this very artistic and historic work, the Walden Pond was designated into a National Historic Landmark and the very birthplace of the conservation movement. The Reservation encompasses 400 acres which [...]
“I thought you would place the house near the waterfall, not over it,” Edgar J. Kaufmann said to his architect. “E.J., I want you to live with the waterfall, not just look at it,” countered Frank Lloyd Wright to his client. Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr. Residence or famously known as the Fallingwater, is designed by [...]