Category: encounters

Black history: have you sought this out in your travels, come across it stories in passing, or passed it by unknowingly? History is about story, after all. Individual story. …

Exploring a community, a neighborhood, a whole region, even a country through the tastes of its food brings extra dimension to how you experience and come to know a …

When you hear the crack of a baseball bat at spring training, cheer on the children in your life in their games, or enjoy a baseball game at any …

Every year, there are all sorts of Christmas trees across the city of Boston: large ones, small ones, ones glimpsed through windows of homes, store window creations, ones for …

Late October brings thoughts of changing colors, falling leaves, crisp apples, pumpkins, ghosts, and cemeteries. I’ve never found cemeteries to be especially spooky. Famous ones such as Père Lachaise …

The dinosaur is on a road trip. He — diplodocus carnegii, that is — lived in was is now the US state of Wyoming somewhere between 161 to 145 …

Travel. It’s one of the things that unites us. So does connection to homeland. So does music. These are all things which play into the music and the ideas …

Reasons for travel include opportunities to meet new people, to make friends, to learn about differing ways people live, and to consider how that compares to your own life. …

How do you feel about museums? Perhaps you’re thinking: in and out, hit the highlights, that’s me and museums. You might be thinking, I could spend hours in a …

The travel press often gets criticized for whitewashing any unsavory aspects of tourism and travel, for making every place sound #perfect and #dreamy, seldom shining a light on the …

The Mississippi River is central to the geography of the United States. It is also central to natural and social history of the United States.  The Mississippi River basin has …

The American southwest: a land of high desert, rushing river, Native tribes, cowboys, ranchers, city dwellers, deep canyons, quiet forest,  and high mountains The American southwest is a landscape that …