The nation’s capital will buzz with speeches and parades for Martin Luther King Day, Jan. 21 and the presidential inauguration events, Jan. 21.
Springfield MO Day Trip into the Holidays
An Illinois town where color is only half the reason to go
Commanding the top northwest corner of Illinois, Galena is a historic town with delicious reasons to visit. oads wind through vast fields of corn under a 360 degree sky until you reach the roller coaster hills of the northwestern most corner of Illinois. Then, from the top of each ridge a panorama of purple-hued trees, farmsteads and forests spread across the horizon.
Maryland: At the Heart of the Civil War
Few areas of the country were more affected by the Civil War than central Maryland. The swath of land from the Potomac River through Hagerstown and Frederick up to Pennsylvania saw unending military action for most of the war. Skirmishes at Hancock early in the war, the battles of South Mountain and Antietam, the… Read More