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I recently was enjoying a leisurely stroll along a path that leads through a treasure-trove of various architectural styles, museum-quality displays of art and floral plantings that would make any gardener proud. I was walking the High Line, the elevated former railway that runs 30 feet above street level down the west side of Manhattan, New ...Read more

Around 1857, a man named Gerat Hollenberg and his wife, Sophia, built a modest wood-shingled house in present-day Kansas, four years before the territory became a state. The structure also served as a grocery store, tavern and unofficial post office for immigrants following the Oregon-California Trails. Three years later it became one of the ...Read more

People walking along a thoroughfare in Silver Spring, Maryland, just outside of Washington, D.C., pass beneath a line of abstract paintings attached to the side of a building. Each includes a quote attributed to a famous historic figure.

"Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself," instructs Marcus Aurelius, the stoic philosopher and ...Read more

"Oh, look," my wife, Fyllis, exclaimed with surprise and delight. "I've been looking for antique candlesticks like these for ages."

"And I've been searching for an old-fashioned briefcase like this one," I replied, lifting my find from a pile of items spread out on a long table.

We were far from home, enjoying a vacation in upstate New York, ...Read more

What can visitors do in Napa and Sonoma besides drink wine? The question looms large for the legendary San Francisco Bay Area wine regions as well as for other wine areas around the country as they face recent mounting challenges.

Gen Z, people ages between 21 and 28, consume less wine than previous generations partially because wine -- and ...Read more