What is it about mountains and lakes that causes us to pause, take a deep breath and relax? Add a resort with a garden spa, a golf course and a 3,200-acre state park, and you will be quickly packing up and heading to the Rocky Gap Lodge & Golf Resort, in Western Maryland’s scenic Cumberland [...]

Pennsylvania Dutch Country. The name conjures up images of men in black riding horse-drawn buggies on country roads carved through rolling hills.  Until they get there, however, few visitors realize that the region also has a rich railroad legacy.
The steam-powered Strasburg Rail Road, America’s oldest operating short-line service, takes passengers on a nine-mile, 45-minute round [...]

Find your way back to nature at Brookside Gardens in Wheaton, Md., located within the Wheaton Regional Park. As you stroll around the myriad of gardens, you will feel the tension and stress of everyday life melting away to be replaced by a feeling of peace and certainty that coming here today was the absolute [...]

Like steam locomotives, buffalo nickels, and Decoration Day doubleheaders, manned lighthouses have gradually disappeared into the dustbin of history.
Gone is the image of the lonely lighthouse keeper, racing up the winding stairs of a circular tower to light lanterns for navigators in storm-tossed seas.
Although automation has supplanted people power in lighthouse annals, many of the [...]

I am most inspired by ordinary people who had a great idea and ran with it. Today, even though the creative entrepreneurs may be gone, the fruits of their labors live on.
Welcome to York County in southeastern Pennsylvania dubbed the “Factory Tour Capital of the World,” where visitors can get a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the [...]

Many people think that Valley Forge National Historical Park was a Revolutionary War battlefield. Visitors are often surprised to find out that there was no fighting at Valley Forge. Instead, it was the site of a six-month training ground for battle-weary soldiers. It was here that General George Washington forged his Continental Army into a [...]

Elegant private homes and beautiful gardens that you will be able to see only once in your lifetime await you for one day in April in Alexandria, Va. On Saturday, April 19, six privately owned homes and gardens will be available for your enjoyment as part of the 75th anniversary of “Historic Garden Week in [...]

The spirited residents of Chestertown, Md., a Colonial historical town just a short distance from the Chesapeake Bay, invite you to their annual tea party on Memorial Day weekend. But, leave your fine china teacups at home. Instead, bring your sunscreen, your appetite, and your penchant for fun as the town celebrates its unique, historical [...]

Everyone likes to be first, and cities are no different. Hampton, Va., championed as the “City of Firsts,” offers a first-class look at the city’s historical, cultural and military heritage.
Hampton is located in the center of Hampton Roads, which is near Norfolk, Newport News, and only 30 minutes away from Colonial Williamsburg and Virginia Beach.
Hampton’s [...]

During the later years of the Great Depression and on the eve of world war, Loren Pope, a busy copyeditor for the Washington Evening Star, was looking for a home where life could be simplified, and nature brought closer. By coincidence the architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, was designing and building a new, simple style of [...]