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Road Tripping with Rod Serling across the San Luis Valley
By RICH GRANT There are many “Twilight Zone” episodes in which a road trip goes strange. A cute couple might be driving along and somehow, somewhere, they take a wrong turn and find themselves (as Rod Serling would put it so magically) “traveling through another dimension — a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind. A
Read moreOn the Terrorizing Trail of Edgar Allan Poe
By RICH GRANT There’s a small brick basement in Philadelphia that is to mystery and horror fiction readers what the basement clubs of Liverpool are to fans of the Beatles. Though obscure and a little off the tourist path, it was in this basement and the small house above it that everything we call mysteries, detective stories, science fiction and
Read moreThe View from the North: 4th of July Story Keeps Getting Better
By SILVIO CANTO, JR. As a kid growing up in Cuba, we were blessed in my family to have Uncle Joaquin, who was a fanatic about U.S. history, especially the Gettysburg Address. I don’t know of anyone else who could recite the speech in English and then translate it into Spanish. He was a very well-educated man who taught at
Read moreThe View from the North: All Fathers Matter
By SILVIO CANTO, JR. The year 2020 marks the fifth Father’s Day since my dad passed away in late 2015. It’s my day to remember a great man who taught me about life and where we came from. He also taught me how treat women and behave properly at work, at home or the baseball field. My father was quiet, a
Read moreThunder by the Falls: The Bloody Battle for the Niagara Frontier
By RICH GRANT At just 36 miles in length, the Niagara is one of the shortest rivers in the world. And one of the most violent. Almost a million gallons of water cascade down the river every second, reaching speeds of 30 miles per hour. The river is actually not a river at all – it is the drainage runoff
Read moreA Walk through Time in Colonial Williamsburg
BY RICH GRANT If you want to leave the noise and chaos of the 21st century behind and travel back to a simpler time, there’s nothing quite like an early morning stroll down the Duke of Gloucester Street in Williamsburg, Virginia. By noon, DOG Street (as the locals call it) will be swarming with tourists and shoppers, but if you
Read moreThe Timeless Seduction of Grands Crus Classés
By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS They are the most prized and highly coveted wines in the world, and with good reason. Bordeaux wines, produced in the southwestern corner of France, are renowned for their tangy fruitiness, elegant balance and gracefulness in aging, traits that have made them the international gold standard for vintner excellence. Divided into five main sections, Bordeaux (the name
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