My cousins Susan told me that the craftspeople who make cutting boards the shapes of states can’t figure out how to make one of Maryland. Just look at a map. All I had in my own head before this trip was “near-DC.” Now I understand how the Chesapeake...
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The year after I graduated from UMass, I was an intern at the Fellowship of Reconciliation in Nyack. Nyack is in Rockland County, on the Hudson River, and not too far from Manhattan. It was fun to go back and walk down memory lane. I have lots of sweet memories of my...
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Newport is another place that I am very happy to have visited in the off-season. In the quiet of a late fall weekday, I could feel the history of this place. And sunset at Brenton Point State Park was spectacular. Washington Square Newport Harbor Historic District...
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Massachusetts is another place that feels like home to me. I know it was the history and the architecture that captivated me when my family visited New England when I was a kid. Then when I went to UMass, I fell in love with all the quirks of the regional culture. I...
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Zee Frensch pronounced eet “Mackinaw,” therefore so do we, oui? Also, there are no cars!! The town is charming, charming, charming AND it is totally worth it to take one of the horse-drawn carriages around the island to see a lot of the wooded Mackinac Island State...
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Kitch-iti-kipi Springs in Palms Brook State Park isn’t too far from Munising, so it’s a great day trip to add on to Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. The color of the water is truly as spectacular as it looks in these photos. One of the unexpected...
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