Editor’s Note: this article comes from a series of emails through the years from George Billy, who spent summers, and winters, in Smallwood NY in the 1950’s when he was a teenager. George and I […]
I have been in Chicago numerous times through the years, all on the job and once on vacation — and always try to ignorantly plow forth and explore the town when work is done. I […]
Hey y’all! I was born in Huntsville, Alabama, and have lived here my whole life. After 26 years I’m as excited as everyone that President Donald J. Trump just announced that the US Space Force […]
“Galveston, oh Galveston!” sang Glen Campbell, one of the great guitar players and singers in history. And a great actor in True Grit. Campbell was a “Session Musician” before he became famous — part of […]
If you travel a lot, every place starts to look like every place else, with rare exceptions. Most cities seem the same; even Beijing China starts to look like Brooklyn. Not New Orleans. New Orleans […]
There is nothing like the excitement of Spring — warmer weather, the opening of outdoor cafe’s, the blooming flowers and trees, the return of baseball, the knowledge that this is just the beginning — things […]
Memphis is smack dab in the middle of the Southern US — at the very bottom of Missouri just above the Mississippi Delta and alongside the Mississippi River; just east of the flatlands of Arkansas. […]
Fort Huachuca, Arizona was not a place I’d ever thought of traveling to — but the job calls and you find yourself in foreign places. In Fort Huachuca’s case, pleasantly surprised. Fort Huachuca is due […]
Having a job that requires regular travel to all parts of the world — you can find yourself bouncing into a town with little preparation or forethought. Another plane ride, another town, another client or […]
Nashville, Tennessee has become Party City. It is The place for Bachelorette parties — with ‘Party’ trollies and open busses transporting groups of bachelorettes and other people celebrating birthdays or events around town as they […]
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