Category: Vacations
LOCAL CUSTOMS Chinese Names Chinese names are a complex subject so let’s take the simple approach. Chinese names have two parts. There are a relatively small number of surnames …
GREAT DESIGN, IN THE BAG The Japanese have long had a love affair with Tasmania, but for Kiyomi of Sashiko Design, it was a love affair with a Tasmanian …
Harvard University Art Museums US Map & Phone & Address Various locations, Cambridge; (617)495-9400 You already know that Harvard is renowned in the areas of politics, law, medicine, and …
University of Massachusetts at Boston US Map & Phone & Address 100 Morrissey Blvd. Dorchester, (617) 287-5646 Relative to other colleges around Boston, the UMass Harbor Campus is small. …
From Somerset Place, we drive to Creswell on Thirty Foot Canal Road, alongside a canal dug by slave labor for the rice plantation. This canal was used to drain …
At first impression, this route hardly qualifies as a backroad. After all, Wilmington, which comprises a good portion of the route, is the state’s ninth-largest city and its metropolitan …
The Piedmont The Blue Ridge Mountains serve as backdrop for the grapevines at Raffaldini Vineyards. North Carolina’s heartland includes the densely populated Triad region of Winston-Salem, Greensboro, and High …
MYSTERIOUS CAROLINA BAYS SCATTERED ALL OVER THE MID-ATLANTIC COASTAL PLAIN are mysteries. Some half million of them. Most are located in the Carolinas, hence the name Carolina bays. Bay …
TOXAWAY FALLS HAS PERHAPS the most storied history of any waterfall in North Carolina. The name Toxaway in its many spellings and variances has several Cherokee applications, among them …
Newton Symphony Orchestra US Map & Phone & Address Aquinas College, 15 Walnut Park, Newton; (617) 965-2555 Bizet, Dvorak, and Prokofiev are just some of the composers whose works …