By RICH GRANT … The Great Locomotive Chase was a 120-mile journey from Atlanta, Georgia, to Chattanooga, Tennessee, tracing the Civil War’s greatest adventure…
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New England in a Nutshell: The Islands of Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard
By RICH GRANT … No place epitomizes the New England of popular imagination better than the islands of Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard…
Island- and History-Hopping in Croatia
By RICH GRANT … Croatia is an amazingly beautiful, sophisticated and affordable destination, with more than a 1,000 miles of spectacular, rocky shoreline…
Fort Mose, the First Free All-Black Community in North America
By RICH GRANT … More before the U.S. Civil War, the first underground railroad to freedom for escaped slaves ran from Georgia and the Carolinas to Florida…
Sailing Across the Andes
By RICH GRANT … Running down the eastern side of Chile, separating it from Bolivia and Argentina, are the great Andes Mountains, the world’s longest mountain range…
Gambling, Gators and Gumbo…
By RICH GRANT … There are no hard and fast rules about boudin. People don’t even agree on how to pronounce it…
Train-Trekking through Italy
BY RICH GRANT … Italians are many wonderful things – but slow, safe and sane drivers, they are not. Italian highways resemble race tracks more than roads…
In 1829, US Needed Wall with Mexico — To Keep People In!
By RICH GRANT and SID WILSON One of the great ironies of recent history is the talk about the need […]
Far from the Madding Crowd: Tiny St. John’s Very Big Beaches
By RICH GRANT The U.S. Virgin Island of St. John is only three by five miles – the size of […]
Brittany’s Beautiful Backroads
By RICH GRANT Not many Americans make it to Brittany. France’s northwest cul-de-sac that reaches out into the Atlantic Ocean […]
Sculpted by the Wind
By RICH GRANT SAN LUIS VALLEY, Colorado – The young Spanish priest felt his wound where the arrow had gone […]
