by B.L. Unkel | Aug 3, 2024 | Travel
How often do you get off the main highways and take smaller country backroads? If you’re like me, not often enough. All those years driving between Tennessee and Texas—and making the trip in one day—meant I never had the time to deviate off my route, no matter how...
by B.L. Unkel | Jul 27, 2024 | Travel
Today we travel across the country with ease. The first settlers weren’t so fortunate. Discoveries Recently, I took Mom to see the Tennessee State Archives and Library in Nashville. (I wrote about the TSAL in December’s DYK Tomorrow Never Comes?) To our...
by B.L. Unkel | Jul 13, 2024 | Travel
Have you ever attended a World’s Fair? Do you even know what it is? The Fair In the U.S., it’s called a “World’s Fair.” Continental Europe and Asia know it as an International or Universal “Exposition”—Expo for short—while the United Kingdom refers to it as an...
by B.L. Unkel | Jul 6, 2024 | Travel
For more than two hundred years, people dreamed about connecting England and France by tunnel. In 1994, the dream finally came true. This is a look at the Channel Tunnel after the build. (To learn how it became a reality—from concept to construction—read “Did You Know...
by B.L. Unkel | Jun 29, 2024 | History
This is the story behind the story of Arlington National Cemetery. The Beginning A couple of years after he married, John Parke Custis (Martha Washington’s son and George Washington’s stepson), purchased two plantations in northern Virginia to be closer to his...
