Boston is one of the great historic cities in this country that is extremely well known and respected not only for the role it played in the nation’s development but also for the great contemporary establishments. Among all of the famous theatres and symphonies as well as the significant historical landmarks, there are some incredible [...]

Florence is a lovely place, and there’s no way to set foot here without being touched by a kind of magic that makes one miss it for the rest of their lives. The only remedy for it is to return, as many people do, or move, as some do, or to visit it with a [...]

We left McKinney Falls State Park and headed south to San Antonio, Texas. We made a stop at the town of New Braunfels, which we heard was a very nice place to visit, it’s a German town that was originally founded by a German prince alongside a substantial amount of German settlers. They really knew [...]

If you’re making a tour of the United States’ national parks, one you shouldn’t miss is the Gettysburg National Military Park, a park and museum that commemorates, at fifty-one thousand casualties, one of the deadliest battles of the Civil War, when the Union won over Robert E. Lee’s second and most ambitious try at invading [...]

One of the many contributions that Benjamin Franklin made throughout his life was to the use of wood burning stoves and fireplaces.  He discovered that when a fireplace is put on the wall of a house, a wall that is an outside wall, with no other rooms behind it, that much of the heat the [...]