June 18, 2026
Liberty Place is one of the most recognizable developments in Philadelphia and played a major role in transforming the city’s skyline. Located in Center City, the complex consists primarily of One Liberty Place and Two Liberty Place, along with a hotel, retail spaces, and residential units. Designed by architect Helmut Jahn, the project introduced a […]
June 17, 2026
This iconic Upper East Side New York hideaway opened in 1947 at the Art Deco Carlyle Hotel on 76th Street. When you enter you are immediately immersed in a different world, a sharp relief from the relative chaos outside. The gold leaf ceilings and the small shaded lamps with an amber glow on each of the […]
June 17, 2026
The Wagner Free Institute of Science is one of Philadelphia’s hidden treasures. You could live for years in the city and never know it existed, yet it is such a unique cultural and historical site that you’d be missing out if you never went. Located in North Philadelphia, it was established in 1855 by William […]
June 16, 2026
In 1878 the first official World’s Fair to be held in the United States, the Centennial Exposition, was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. During the Exposition, an art gallery was hosted at Memorial Hall, accruing over ten million visitors between May and November of that year. The Philadelphia Museum of Art was founded the subsequent year […]
June 15, 2026
March 12th 1926, marked the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem where it quickly became one of the most important dance halls in American history. Built on Lenox Avenue between a 140 and 141 streets ( it took up the entire block), it emerged during the Harlem Renaissance as […]
June 14, 2026
We stumbled upon a shopping paradise along Route 1 heading to the Florida Keys, situated at the crossroads between the peninsula of Florida and the beginning of the Keys. The moment you turn off the road into the parking lot, it’s not your usual mall outlet experience. Palm trees with terracotta rooftops, white stucco walls, […]
June 14, 2026
For more than three decades, the extraordinary Fairchild Botanical Gardens, where they grow more than 400 varieties of mangoes, has hosted a Mango Festival. What a good time we had at the mango tastings, cooking demonstrations and slurping mango cocktails and smoothies. We learned that they are dozens of varieties of mangoes. While most backyard trees […]
June 14, 2026
For the first time in it’s almost 100 year existence, the Coral Gables City Hall has begun a complete restoration. The building was a major element in the plans of George. E Merrick, founder of Coral Gables, to create a Spanish-Mediterranean city, The city hall, was completed in 1928 after taking just over a year […]
June 11, 2026
Grab a cold one in your flip-flops and take a lazy stroll off Duval street onto Caroline street, as the sun peeps through the palms and catch the essence of what island life must have been like before the party started. Most of the tourists are here now because of Jimmy Buffett and the only […]
June 8, 2026
When you’re driving down Route 1 towards south Vero Beach, just pull over at McKee Botanical Gardens to visit one of Florida’s most impressive plant collections. Long before Mickey descended on Orlando, in the 1920’s the land was part of an 80 acre tropical attraction called McKee Jungle Gardens, where they planted 300 royal palms […]
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