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FUN FACTS ABOUT MAINE LOBSTERS

Beth July 2024 0

With its powerful front claws, spindly legs, antennae, and hard shell, the American...

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WHAT’S SPECIAL ABOUT ACADIA NATIONAL PARK

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Something about the bracing smell of salt water, the plaintive cry of gulls,...

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PLACES TO VISIT BETWEEN KYOTO AND HIROSHIMA

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You can whip between Kyoto and Hiroshima in less than two hours on...

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MY FAVORITE KYOTO SHRINES AND TEMPLES

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People always ask which Japanese city is the most important to visit, and...

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OKINAWA’S AWAMORI IS JAPAN’S OLDEST DISTILLED LIQUOR

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There’s hardly an event or celebration in Okinawa, or even a gathering...

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OSTIA–ANCIENT ROME’S PORT CITY

Beth March 2024 1

I didn’t appreciate what I was seeing as I walked the stone streets...

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JAPAN’S HOMEISHU MEDICINAL LIQUOR

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The world of Japanese sake is so huge, that learning about the famous...

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JAPAN’S CHERRY BLOSSOMS

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Nothing heralds the birth of spring more joyously than Japan’s cherry trees. Bursting...

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VENICE THE IMPROBABLY CITY

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There’s no place in the world like Venice. Nothing even comes close. That...

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PLACES TO VISIT BETWEEN TOKYO AND KYOTO

Beth October 2023 2

You can zip between Tokyo and Kyoto on the Shinkansen bullet train in...

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A FAN OF JAPANESE FOLDING FANS

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The first time I saw a woman cooling herself with a Japanese folding...

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SAINT JOSEPH MISSOURI

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The story of a river town from boom to bust

Saint Joseph Missouri...

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FINDING FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA IN GRANADA, SPAIN

Beth August 2023 1

I don’t remember much about my first visit to Granada as a year-abroad...

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JAPAN’S BEST EXPERIENCES

Beth July 2023 2

I first went to Japan to write some travel articles and ended up...

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UNDERGROUND RAILROAD IN LAWRENCE KANSAS

Beth June 2023 3

When it comes to the Underground Railroad in Lawrence, Kansas, misconceptions abound. Take...

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HISTORIC LECOMPTON, KANSAS

Beth May 2023 1

This would be the capital if Kansas had been admitted as a slave...
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SHOPPING FOR COLOMBIAN CRAFTS IN BOGOTA

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Souvenir stems from the French verb to remember, which is exactly what I...

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INDIGENOUS VILLAGES ON COLOMBIA’S AMAZON RIVER

Beth March 2023 2

I was wandering around Mocagua, one of many Indigenous villages on Colombia’s...

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CHILDREN AT THE FOREFRONT OF SCHOOL DESEGREGATION

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My first years of public education, in the 1960s, were at all-white elementary...

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Finding Amore and Limoncello in Southern Italy

Beth November 2022 1

I was in the Italian village of my dreams, and yet I couldn’t...

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Mexico’s Valle de Guadalupe Wine Region

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The sky was a striking blue and the air was hot and dry...

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LEARNING ABOUT SLAVERY IN CHARLESTON

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Have you ever gone on vacation but, when you get there, find yourself...

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The Henry Ford and the Anti-Semite

Beth April 2022 1

I thoroughly enjoyed my visit to The Henry Ford, a 250-acre complex...

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Milwaukee’s Bobblehead museum a nod to pop culture and politics

Beth March 2022 0

I used to associate bobbleheads with those figures I saw as a child...

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Hiraizumi 12th-century Buddhist Utopia in Japan

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Most of Japan’s history–skirmishes and wars between feudal lords, legends surrounding ancestors of...

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