National Park Service

Posted by Robin on Oct 18, 2011 in Featured, Travel | 1 comment

Ever been somewhere, looked up, and thought, That’s a really big tree. Well, unless you were standing in Sequoia National Park, or...

Posted by Robin on Mar 11, 2011 in History | Comments Off on History: Jamestown

What Sir Walter Raleigh and his Roanoke Island colonists failed to accomplish, the Jamestown settlers achieved: the first permanent...

Posted by Robin on Apr 11, 2010 in Travel | Comments Off on Travel: Yorktown, Virginia

Yorktown existed as a town beginning in 1691, or 80 years before it became famous. It was named “York” after the city in...

Posted by Robin on Nov 24, 2009 in History | Comments Off on History: Ellis Island

For the twelve million immigrants who came through Ellis Island, and their now 100 million descendants, these 27.5 acres are sacred...

Posted by Robin on Oct 9, 2009 in Americana, Travel | Comments Off on Americana: Gettysburg

“The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.” President Abraham...

Posted by Robin on Jun 23, 2009 in Americana, Travel | 2 comments

Now, this is what a stimulus project is supposed to be. Authorized by Congress during the Great Depression, much of the early work on the...