Travel

By Renée S. Gordon “If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.”  –Lyndon B. Johnson New York’s Adirondacks…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  The Pirate House Restaurant   By Renée S. Gordon “I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.”  …

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Road to Tara Museum By Renée S. Gordon “War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.”  –William Tecumseh Sherman Ulysses Grant and William T. Sherman first met at West Point as students, but did not forge a friendship until their time together…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  (Eiteljorg Museum) By Renée S. Gordon “Experience, travel, these are as education in themselves.”  –Euripides Indiana became the 19th state in the Union in 1816 and at that time Congress reserved four parcels of public land as potential sites for a state capital. Four years later, 10 commissioners were mandated to select a…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Museum of the Fur Trade Trading Post   By Renée S. Gordon “Our hearts will greet the smiling sun, And bless the heavenly rain; And hope, now dead, will come to life, When spring is here again.”  –Captain John Crawford The settlement of O’Linn was established in 1884 with the express purpose of…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Dirty Creek Saloon   By Renée S. Gordon “It does not matter where his body lies for it is grass, but where his Spirit is.” –Black Elk on Crazy Horse’s gravesite Two events, the Westward Migration and the Homestead Act, had a major impact on Nebraska. The first groups of nonindigenous people in…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Pony Express Statue   By Renée S. Gordon “A very great vision is needed and the man who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky.”  –Crazy Horse A journey through modern Western Nebraska is a trip through a landscape where as William Faulkner said, “The…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Gehrig, Robinson and Clemente in the Basebal Hall of Fame.   By Renée S. Gordon “History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.”  –James Fenimore Cooper Archeologists have shown that the beauty and bounty of Central New York has attracted travelers since prehistoric times. Native…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  The Black Cat Cafe   By Renée S. Gordon Central New York is that perfect destination that combines sites, attractions and a unique history with outstanding scenery and a plethora of outdoor activities designed for all fitness levels. The region is filled with quaint villages, antique shops, both trendy and historic restaurants and…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Statues   By Renée S. Gordon “Think not forever of yourselves, O chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn”    –The Peacemaker, Founder of the Iroquois Confederacy When the Erie Canal opened…

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