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BREWERY TRAIL – BLUE MOUNTAIN BREWERY
One of our favorite pastimes? Visiting craft breweries close to and far from home. Since we once homebrewed, we’re fascinated by what these local folks can do. Many of them began as living room brewers before expanding. When we visited Waynesboro, Virginia, this past summer, we stumbled upon one of the more unique establishments and
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FALLING IN LOVE WITH PITTSBURGH
I fell in love twice during the summer of 2009. The first time I fell in love with the man who would become my husband. The second time I fell in love with Pittsburgh, the city he had called home for more than three decades. “You’re moving where?” family and friends asked when I announced
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OUR URBAN OASIS
A Place of Calm in the Middle of Chaos We live on the southeast side of Tallahassee, but when we drive a mile from our home to a city park, it’s hard to believe we’re so close to an urban area with a population of 200,000. We call it Piney Z after the name of
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ACADIA NATIONAL PARK – COASTAL MAINE
By P.C. Zick @pczick.bsky.social “Are you going to Acadia?” This question popped up at first mention of our impending trip to Maine. If it hadn’t been on the Road Scholar agenda, we might have had to cancel because any other answer, “but of course” would not satisfy the askers of the question. I understand the
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NEVER IGNORE A “LITTLE OLD LADY IN TENNIS SHOES”
By P.C. Zick – @pczick.bsky.social “I’m just a little old lady in tennis shoes.” So said Margaret Hames when other more glowing titles followed her name. Environmentalist, conservationist, defender of wetlands, scrubs, and hammocks, and savior of public places in Brevard County, Florida, are more accurate descriptions of this “force of nature,” her daughter, Pat Baxter,
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LIGHTHOUSE PASSION SERIES – MORRIS ISLAND, CHARLESTON
By P.C. Zick – @pczick.bsky.social On a recent trip to Charleston, South Carolina, we kept hearing about the charming town of Folly Beach a short drive south of Charleston proper. Photo: Pineapple Fountain, Waterfront Park, Charleston, SC A colorful little beach community with the second longest boardwalk on the eastern coast, the Folly Beach Pier juts
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