Photos from 3/13 I drove by this a few times on the way to New Hope and was curious what exactly it was. After being assigned a paper for a Museum Studies class and randomly choosing Fonthill Castle from a list of local museums, I got my answer. ...
Photos from June 2013 Old Brunswick Town predates the American Revolution and was once an important port along the Cape Fear River. The growing size and importance of nearby Wilmington chipped away at Brunswick’s significance and population. In 1776, the British attacked the town and scattered its few...
Photos Taken October 2011 From my experience, few people are aware that The Thousand Islands refers to an actual place and not just salad dressing. The area in question is between Ontario and New York, along the St. Lawrence River and the uppermost section of Lake Ontario. The...
Photos taken October 2011 Fort Ticonderoga, if even mentioned in any of your US History textbooks, was probably briefly brought up for a sentence or two in a chapter about the American Revolution. The fort was actually built by the French during the French & Indian War (or...
Photos taken October 2011 Another discovery through geocaching. We stopped here on the way home from our Quebec/New York trip. This may look like a gas station from the 1950’s, but this is really the side yard of someone’s home in Hallstead. Vintage soda machines, signs, and gas...
Photos from November 2011 I laugh whenever anyone says history classes are boring, because I’ve taken some really cool and unusual ones, case in point The History of Rock n’ Roll. Yes, I swear that was a real class, and an excellent one at that. For a class...
Photos from June 2011 Another find due to geocaching. I wanted to make a day trip out of our visit to South of the Border, and I happened to notice this oddity was just outside Florence. On March 11, 1958, an Air Force pilot heading to England accidentally...
