I hadn’t been in New York City more than a week before I got a text from a friend who’d also just moved here: “I just walked under Madonna.” She’d decided to give an impromptu concert in Times Square, which somewhere around 350,000 people walk through on an average day. Of course, being new to…
By Beth Reiber The silver Arch soars gracefully above the expansive grounds of Gateway Arch National Park on the banks of the Mississippi River. Visible from up to 30 miles away, the St. Louis icon was erected 60 years ago to commemorate the Missouri town’s role in westward expansion during the 1800s. It’s also an…
By Teresa Bitler Just outside Quartzite, Arizona, not far from the California border, a massive bonfire crackles and occasionally pops, sending sparks into the dimming sky. Basketball-sized boulders circle the flames, and about three feet wider, smaller rocks ring the boulders to keep anyone from getting too close to the fire. Double that distance again…
By Beth Reiber February 22 was a beautiful Sunday morning for our drive around Lake Patzcuaro in the Mexican state of Michoacán. But just as my three friends and I exited our rental car in Erongaricuaro, one of many artisan towns ringing the lake, we heard a loud boom just on the other side of…
The Guadalupe River appeared benign – quiet, slow-moving, fishy-looking. It was just what a visitor from a thousand miles away expected in the Central Texas Hill Country, a region of big skies, gentle hills and open land that native son President Lyndon Johnson loved. The Hill Country is north of San Antiono and south of…
The British Army was on the move and the American militia was scattered across the New York countryside. What followed were nights of courage and defiance that helped shape the outcome of the Revolution. Through midnight rides, strategic river control, and decisive battles from Long Island and Fort Ticonderoga to Saratoga, New York emerged as a true battleground that determined America’s fate. Join writer Mark Orwoll as he traces the battles, landscapes, and forgotten heroes that made New York the linchpin of America’s fight for independence.
In the valley of Viñales, the smoke from Cuban cigars mingles in an atmosphere rich in history and contradiction. Join writer and photographer Robert Holmes as he explores how this humble agricultural region in Cuba has become the heart of a luxury export trade, and the exotic visage that masks the reality of rural hardship, outdated infrastructure, and the heavy weight of a global reputation.
By Kerrick James There is a yin ~ yang interplay of life and seasons in the corridors of sandstone canyons as the Colorado River makes its passage south through Utah, before being released below Arizona’s Glen Canyon Dam. Sometimes called the ‘American Nile,’ the great river of the American Southwest drops 9,010 feet from its…
By Teresa Bitler Most visitors to Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site arrive today just as the prisoners did in the 1930s, by train. But instead of marching under the watch of SS guards, visitors board a city bus that takes a residential route past steep-roofed homes, a spattering of businesses and restaurants, and a school.…
By Rich Grant “The only thing that makes sense is for Canada to become our cherished Fifty First State.” President Donald Trump, May 4, 2025. Donald Trump is not the first United States president to suggest that Canada join the U.S. George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison all thought Canada should be…