Travel

ABOVE PHOTO:  Royal Palace By Renée S. Gordon “Africa begins in the Pyrenees”  Anon. Spain, Europe’s third largest country, is culturally, historically and geographically one of the most interesting countries in the world. Located over 85 percent of the Iberian Peninsula, it includes islands in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, the Canaries and the Balearics,…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Alabama Delta By Renée S. Gordon Mobilians are not inclined to confine their good times to the Mobile city limits or to Mardi Gras season. Their “joie de vive” extends to dining, entertainment and activities and encompasses cities and towns throughout the state and from the Mobile River to the Gulf Coast. The…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Mobile Museum of Art By Renée S. Gordon “People dancing all in the street, See the rhythm all in their feet, Life is good wild and sweet, Let the music play on….” –Lionel Ritchie, Alabama Native Native Americans inhabited the region that is now Alabama for thousands of years prior to European contact…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Eastern State Penitentiary By Renée S. Gordon Human beings have had a love affair with moving pictures since the first prehistoric man, or woman, used moving shadows on a cave wall to tell a story. Experimentation in the field began in earnest in the mid-19th century and in the 1890s very brief, a…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Montpelier By Renée S. Gordon “No, they stay with their indulgences, happy, because contented, until death leaves the log cabin free for other occupants!” –1824 Mary Cutts Charlottesville’s Main Street serves as a modern reminder that it began in the early 1700s as Three Notch’d Road, and prior to that as an Indian…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Monticello By Renée S. Gordon “On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.”  –Thomas Jefferson The Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area begins at Monticello in Charlottesville, Virginia and winds 180-miles north to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The route encompasses sites pertinent to all wars on…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Spotsylvania Courthouse By Renée S. Gordon “I am afraid of the lawless Yankee soldiers, but that is nothing to my fear of the Negroes if they rise against us.” -Betty Maury Fredericksburg, Virginia has always benefitted from a location that placed it at the heart of all of the events that contributed to…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  History Museum By Renée S. Gordon No city in colonial America has been more of a crossroad than Fredericksburg, Virginia. Situated in the Piedmont Region of Virginia, extending from the fall line of the Tidewater to the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, it showcases the 300 to 2,200-ft undulating hills the region…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  New Tubman Museum By Renée S. Gordon “I look back on my life, comin’ out of Macon, Georgia – I never thought I’d be a superstar, a living legend. I never heard of no rock and roll in my life.”  –Little Richard Richard Wayne Penniman, better known as Rock n Roll icon Little Richard,…

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By Renée S. Gordon Archeological evidence points to a Native American presence in Vermont around 10,000-years ago after a 2-mile high glacier carved out the area. These Paleoindians, ancestors of the modern Abenaki, migrated into the region in search of large game, eventually settled in small hunting, gathering and fishing communities and were caretakers of…

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