Happy Boxing Day, Happy Holidays, and happy end-of-calendar year 2022 to you! If you are planning any visits to the National Parks in 2023, put this park on your short list. It has epic, historic buildings and trails (the Appalachian Trail,) green landscapes, streams, rivers, fall color, and, of course, “smoky” mountains. Check it out!
Water is here. Water is there. Water is everywhere! Water is Everglades National Park. Celebrating it’s 75th birthday in 2022, Everglades remains one of the most vital and unique of the National Park Service of the United States, and a UNESCO site.. Receiving 60 inches of rainfall a year, (or twice the amount of the […]
Someone once said “It’s the journey, not the destination.” Getting to Great Basin National Park in Nevada, USA, is half the fun. It is likely you will travel there on U.S. Highway 50, the “Lincoln Highway,” also known as the “Loneliest Road in America.” You will see small-town museums at their finest, centuries-old courthouses, and […]
Happy Halloween everybody!
Imagine, if you will, how the plains and prairies of Midwest America used to appear before the eyes of the beholders, had they been farmers, traders, or frontiers people of any ilk who came upon these lands. This diverse ecosystem, both flora and fauna, stretched out in all directions and covered nearly one-third of North […]
October 21, 2022, marks the 23rd birthday of this National Park in Colorado. That means Black Canyon of the Gunnison is one of the youngest American National Park landmarks, but geologically, its appearance is one of the oldest. Rock formations in the steep cliff walls at this Park go back billions of years. Similar to […]
In keeping with the “spirit” of the past couple of posts, I bring you Part Three of the series “Small Town Museums of the USA.” Today’s video is “Bodie Ghost Town,” and it shows you the remnants of a long-abandoned town in California. It remains a ghost town, one of many still existent in America. […]
Part Two of this series of small town museum collections contains pictures from Southwest Utah. As part of the American Southwest, locals take pride in their remembrance of bye-gone days — culture and history of simpler times — and have restored and preserved this life of the past. The video shows two Utah state park […]
Indoors and outdoors, small towns across America love to show off their history. Whether it be old farm equipment, mining tools, cars, planes, trains, and other transportation, or parlor, kitchen, and office furniture, (to name just a few,) buildings and open spaces are set aside for museum-like displays. Last post, I showed the Miracle of […]