Just a short drive from U.S. Route 1, Mount Agamenticus rises above the southern Maine landscape, offering sweeping views that stretch from the Atlantic Ocean to the distant White Mountains on a clear day. At 692 feet, it isn’t Maine’s tallest mountain—but its location near the coast gives it one of the most dramatic panoramas […]
“It was a bar like any other, and then it wasn’t” Jimmy Buffett. The Caribbean Club is most famous as the inspiration and location for the 1948 film Key Largo starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, although the interiors were shot at Warner Brothers studios in Hollywood. Built in the late 1930’s as a fishing club, […]
New York City’s most fabled watering hole is the Blue Bar, the historic blue-lit lounge inside the 122 year old Algonquin Hotel. The bar opened at the demise of Prohibition in 1933, and quickly became the favorite spot for a group of sharp-tongued literati that included the celebrated poet and writer Dorothy Parker, known for her […]
Just above the Conowingo Dam in Rising Sun, MD is Dean’s Cement Yard Decore (sic). Dean’s offerings are visible from Conowingo Road (Route 1) to all who pass by. The three foot tall rabbit and the life-sized bear have a way of getting curious travelers to turn into the display yard. I had stopped on 2 previous trips, […]
The Boston Public Library was established in 1848, but its defining building in Copley Square opened to the public on February 1, 1895. Designed by Charles Follen McKim of the firm McKim, Mead & White, the building represented a shift in how public institutions were designed in the United States. McKim modeled the structure after […]
The First Church of Christ, Scientist was founded in 1879 by Mary Baker Eddy, but its first permanent home came fifteen years later. The original church building opened on December 30, 1894, designed by Franklin I. Welch. It was built to house a growing congregation and to establish a physical center for a movement that […]
The Massachusetts Historical Society was founded in 1791 by Reverend Jeremy Belknap and a small group of Boston men with a clear goal. They wanted to collect and preserve materials related to the history of the United States. At the time, the country was still new. The idea of systematically saving its records was not. […]
For over a 100 years New York’s Lower East Side was famous for its pickle district, with its numerous pickle markets and vendors. Today, the only store in New York City to get just pickles, is the Pickle Guys, which is an old school New Yorker’s dream, where they craft pickles using an authentic East […]
Don’t let the Florida roadside shack appearance fool you, Herbie’s is one of the oldest operating restaurants in the Florida Keys, established in the 1940s under the name of Maggie’s Chowder House. You are sure to find sun burnt vacationers and locals that often become your drinking buddies. The only thing old school about the […]
Just a short drive from U.S. Route 1, Goose Rocks Beach is one of southern Maine’s most peaceful stretches of coastline. Unlike some of the busier beaches in the region, Goose Rocks offers wide-open sand, gentle surf, and long views of the Atlantic that make it feel relaxed and unhurried. The beach runs for nearly […]
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