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Moab Utah is another part of eastern Utah known for its dramatic scenery. But that wasn’t always the case. Moab’s economy was originally based on agriculture but gradually shifted to mining, particularly uranium. As the cold war ended, the diminished need for uranium resulted in closed mines and empty houses. But then came the tourists. […]
Butts, mesas, red rocks. The Utah monument corner region in southeastern Utah has it all. It s numerous state parks and national monuments in the area are well worth a visit. Come explore with us the ones that we did visit. Goosenecks State Park Goosenecks State Park provides a viewpoint where you can see an […]
As the name suggests, Tri-Cities Washington consists largely of three mid-sized cities that border each other: Pasco, Kennewick (the largest of the three), and Richland (the smallest). While we wouldn’t normally visit the Tri-Cities, we were there for a conference. And since we were there, we spent some time getting to know the area. The …
Wine and Walla Walla Valley In the 1840s French fur trappers began settling around a Hudson Bay Company’s trading post. Italian and German settlers followed in the 1850s. Drawing on their home country’s heritage, settlers planted grapes (mostly concord and island belle, rather than vinifera) to make sweet wine for personal consumption. The wine industry […]
Yakima Valley is a large agricultural region in Washington State that has been growing a wide range of fruit for almost two centuries. One fruit has increasingly been wine grapes. Yakima Valley was Washington State’s first wine AVA and today is its largest one. Although wine grapes have been grown here since 1869, they only […]
It shows his evolution from an underground street artist to one who enjoyed international acclaim–acclaim that was more in Europe and Asia than in his native America during his lifetime and for several years after his untimely death. Jean-Michel Basquiat Childhood Jean-Michel Basquiat was born in December 1960 to a Haitian father and Puerto Rican […]