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Blue Ridge Parkway Where: North Carolina and Virginia When: Late spring through fall Why: Spawned by the New Deal more than 75 years ago as a scenic driving route, the Blue Ridge Parkway provides 469 uninterrupted miles of tarmac through some of the...

Unless we are one of a bad souls cursed to a limbo of Southern Rail, steer ride as a sequence is something that, roughly dual centuries after Robert Stephenson’s invention of a Rocket, stays one of a many courteous ways of removing from A to B. It offers...

Airplane pilots are optimists. “Everything will be fine,” we say before a flight, but a touch of doubt lingers because we know that mechanical things fail, people make mistakes and aviation, like the sea, is inherently unforgiving of failure or mistake...

Let’s play a game. When I say “New York” take a minute – what’s the first thing that comes to mind? [Keep Thinking.] Odds are cold weather, New York City, Times Square, or New York Yankees popped into your mind. Am I right? That’s usually what comes...

The evacuation of Fort Ticonderoga in July, 1777, is a well-known incident of the American Revolution. Directly related to it is the Battle of Hubbardton, the only Revolutionary War battle fought in Vermont.[1] Often, sources of information found on...