Museums
Culture Travel Tuesday Destination: Ireland Museum: Derrynane House By Dr. Jessica Voigts Exploring History at Derrynane House, County Kerry, Ireland Imagine Ireland in a time of great change, both political and religious. There was great social inequality as well as religious persecution. In times like these, great men arise. And indeed, the story of Daniel [...]
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Cultural Travel Tuesday Destination: Scotland Inspiration: Museum at Culloden Visitor’s Center By Dr. Jessie Voigts Imagine the moors of the Scottish Highlands – it’s a rainy, misty day, with a bit of a chill in the air. The sunken bogs are wreathed in fog, and human noise is eerily absent – just a raven’s caw [...]
Destination: Nova Scotia Book: Island: The Complete Stories (hardcover 2000, paperback Vintage copy from Random House in 2002), by Alistair MacLeod For a relatively small province of Canada, and one without major urban centers, Nova Scotia contributes quite a bit to the literary life of the country. More than a dozen small publishing companies serve [...]
Destination: Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada Book: , Edited by Kristie Miller and Robert H. McGinnis “It has been such lovely weather that just to be alive was all one wanted….” Eleanor Roosevelt in letter to Isabella Greenway in August, 1906. Isabella Greenway was the first female member of Congress form Arizona and built The [...]
SALUTE TO MUSEUMS Check the credit cards in your wallet. If you happen to have any card from Bank of America, it is your ticket to a museum somewhere in the United States. Their Museums on Us® program includes 150 museums offering free admission the first full weekend of a month. The next opportunities are April [...]
A Great American Road Trip Bulletin: Here’s a fabulous mural for North Dakota, created by James Rosenquist for the Plains Museum. Destination: North Dakota Movie: Fargo (1996) Produced by the Coen Brothers A GUEST POST by Sam Lowe Author of Mysteries and Legends of Arizona: True Stories of the Unsolved and Unexplained (Mysteries and Legends [...]
DESTINATION: Guernsey, the Channel Islands, Great Britain BOOK: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2008) by Mary Anne Shaeffer and Annie Barrows A GUEST POST by Anne-Sophie Redisch Print PDF
Travel Tuesday Destination: Stockholm, Sweden, The Vasa Museum Print PDF
Destination: Concord, Massachusetts Site: Henry David Thoreau’s Home “What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?“ Print PDF
