The Museum of Science, Boston is a science museum in Boston, Massachusetts. It began as the Boston Society of Natural History on February 9, 1830, and was founded by Walter Channing, Benjamin D. Greene, George Hayward, John Ware, Edward Brooks, Amos Binney, and George B. Emerson. In 1862, after renting facilities for years, the first […]
Fenway Park is a baseball stadium in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the home field of the Boston Red Sox, one of the oldest teams in Major League Baseball. Fenway Park was opened in 1912 and is the oldest baseball stadium still in use in the United States. The stadium has a seating capacity of approximately […]
The Colony Hotel is a luxury hotel in Kennebunkport, Maine. It was built on the site of the Ocean Bluff Hotel, which opened in 1872. Architect John Calvin Stevens designed the Colony and it opened in 1914. It was originally known as The Breakwater Court. George Boughton purchased the hotel in 1947. Boughton owned the […]
The Blue Hill Observation Tower, which was built between 1937 and 1938, is a steel fire lookout tower in the Blue Hills Reservation, a state park in the Boston metropolitan area. It was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps. The tower is in the town of Milton, Massachusetts. The tower was open seasonally and offered […]
Living in Florida most of my life, I always had a soft spot for Gator Farms. My brother was a Handler at a reptile institute back in the seventies where he milked rattlesnakes and wrestled alligators. Crazy fun. This is the Best Alligator Farm in Florida. George Reddington and Felix Fire began collecting alligators on Anastasia […]
Somehow, asian restaurants reign supreme when it comes to puns in their restaurant names. Here’s a local one I spied a couple years back while strolling Township Line Road. It has it all- a little humor, a red swoosh, and a bowl of rice. This would be a great place to pick up your lunch […]
The greatest movie adventure of all time is available in a total immersive 3D experience. The Latest 3-D projector Imagery/ wall-to-wall, floor to ceiling. Come take the visual, breath taking walk with your family down the Yellow Brick Road….. Book covers illustrated by L. Frank Baum adorn the wall in the museum lobby gift shop. […]
Speed cameras were installed on Roosevelt Boulevard (Route 1) in 2020. Since then the amount of crashes on this road has declined 36% from 2019 to 2021, compared to a decline of 6% in Philadelphia overall, as reported by the Transportation Advisory Committed. More amazing was that collisions with fatalities or serious injuries declined 11% […]
At the time it was built in 1859 entering the St Johns River was a risky business except for small vessels. Shifting sands and erratic currents moved the channel about so that sailors were never quite sure how to get across the sandbar at the mouth of the river. The beacon at a top of […]
The story goes that a large barge being pulled by ship somehow ended up on the reef with a sticky cargo of molasses stored in barrels. Therefore the Molasses Reef. Here is another screwpile skeleton tower Lighthouse with a lantern room at the top. Built and lit in 1921 it’s light flashed every 10 seconds […]
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