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Just Travel
Browse the airfare websites and daydream. Run a few searches and see what’s out there. Write down a few bargains for destinations you’ve never been. Think it over and wonder what it would be like to see that place. Resolve … Continue reading
Posted in Travel
Tagged airline, airport, anticipation, excitement, history, journey, News, photography, Travel, website
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Where To? Honiara, Solomon Islands
Welcome to Where To, a new series on this blog. I’ll be generating random cities or towns via geo-pick.com, then researching these dots on the map and telling you why you should (or shouldn’t) visit. It’s the online version of … Continue reading
Posted in Oceania, Travel, Where To?
Tagged Battle for Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, history, Honiara, photography, Solomon Islands, South Pacific, Travel, World War II
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All Aboard The Train To Sicily
You’re looking at the upper deck – not sure if that’s a correct maritime term – of the ferry that shuttles between Reggio di Calabria, on the tippy toe of the Italian peninsula, to Messina in Sicily. It’s a fairly … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Rome and Italy, Travel
Tagged Calabria, Europe, ferry, history, Italy, Madonna della lettera, Messina, photography, Reggio di Calabria, Sicily, Strait of Messina, train, Travel, Virgin Mary
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Sbarro, Tom Hanks, And The Commuter’s Cafe: A Look Inside The Old World Trade Center
I’m not into 9/11 remembrances. This is not because I don’t have respect for the events that happened or the families who lost loved ones. Although I bore firsthand witness to the events, I was lucky enough not to have … Continue reading
Posted in Americas, History, New York City, New York State, Travel, United States
Tagged 9/11, concourse, history, lobby, Mazes and Monsters, new york, photography, September 11, shopping mall, Tom Hanks, Travel, Windows On The World, World Trade Center, WTC
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The Tonawanda Kardex: The NFL’s Only True One-And-Done Team
Today will be the first full Sunday of games in the National Football League, as its 93rd season begins in earnest. Fans will pay hundreds of dollars for tickets and teams will reap millions (the league, billions), and games will … Continue reading
Brooklyn’s Dennet Place Is Making More Headlines
Quirky Dennet Place, in my neighborhood of Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, is being talked about again. I wrote a brief piece about the tiny backstreet in 2010, wondering like so many before and since why the street-level front doors are so … Continue reading
Posted in Americas, History, New York City, New York State, United States
Tagged Bennett Place, brooklyn, Carroll Gardens, Dennet Place, Dennett Place, history, Hobbit doors, new york, New York City, Travel
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La Fine della Tenuta di Tenuta – Turning the Page on 90 Years of Family (and American) History
You’re looking at the house my great-grandparents moved into in the early 1920s after they got married. They were immigrants from backwater towns in Calabria, in southern Italy, and they, like a lot of immigrants from their immediate vicinity, moved … Continue reading
Posted in Americas, History, Travel, United States, Wisconsin
Tagged 24th Avenue, Al Molinaro, American Brass, Anthony Tenuta, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Calabria, Chicago, Columbus Park, Cosenza, Don Ameche, history, immigrants, Italy, Jockey, Kenosha, Kingdom of Italy, Lake Michigan, Maranesi, Marano Marchesato, Marano Principato, Mark Ruffalo, mezzogiorno, Milwaukee, Nash Motors, Newell Street, Orson Welles, Southern Italy, Tenuta, Tenutas, Teresa Tenuta, Theresa Ruffolo, Travel, Wisconsin
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Robert Underhill at the Cole Brothers Air Show, 1955
Here is some more mesmerizing footage courtesy of my great-uncle Bob Underhill, who turns 91 next month. In this short film (which I’ve edited) he is flying in the once-renowned Cole Brothers Airshow in Illinois with his friend Porky. In … Continue reading
Posted in Americas, History, Travel, Video
Tagged 1955, air show, aviation, Cole Brothers, flight, history, home movies, Illinois
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Happy 2011!
Happy New Year. I hope your 2010 was great and your 2011 is better. To put a few things in perspective (or not), 2011 marks: Ten years since the 9/11 attacks 25 years since the Challenger explosion 50 years since … Continue reading
Packers Should Adopt “Throwbacks” As Regular Uniforms
This is of the utmost importance, so pay attention. On December 5, the Packers donned what the sports world calls “throwback” uniforms for their contest with San Francisco. The uniforms, pictured above, recalled the 1929 team (which won its … Continue reading
Posted in History, Sports
Tagged Denver Broncos, Green Bay Packers, history, jerseys, nfl, San Francisco 49ers, throwbacks, uniforms
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