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The City Whose River Caught Fire Cleveland Ohio was initially established in 1796. It remained a relatively sleepy community until the 1832 completion of the Ohio and Erie Canal which terminated there. Within five years of the Canal’s completion, the population had grown tenfold, largely by a surge in immigrants. This transformed the small port […]
Calgary Canada today is a sophisticated Alberta city with numerous modern buildings. But it wasn’t always that way. It was first settled more than 10,000 years ago. It began attracting European trappers, buffalo hunters, and fur and whiskey traders in the mid-19th century. The Northwest Mounted Police Force (since renamed the Canadian Royal Mounted …
An exhibit of Ramses the Great is spending 4 years touring around the world. It currently is in San Francisco at the DeYoung Museum before it moves on to its next stop. Who Was Ramses II and Why Was He So Great? Was Ramses II really one of Egypt’s more powerful pharaohs or was he […]
Diego Rivera is a famed early 20th-century muralist. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is currently exhibiting over 150 of his paintings, frescoes, and drawings that highlight his work from the 1920s to the 1940s when he was conceiving a new vision for North America. The Mexican Revolution Diego Rivera began his artistic career […]
Lake Louise is in Alberta’s Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies. The town is named for its eponymous, turquoise-colored glacial lake. The lake is surrounded by mountains, glaciers, and, at its head, the Fairmont Lake Louise hotel. A glacier formed the valley 2 million years ago. Another glacier deepened it during the last ice […]
Whenever we drive through Oregon, Ashland Oregon is a convenient stopping spot. This pretty little city has streets lined with interesting boutiques and art galleries, and pretty B&Bs within walking distance of the town. Ashland is also normally alive with the Sound of Music as street musicians are interspersed in the city’s main streets (although […]