vacation – Auction Finds

Posted in food, and travel

By Kristin E. Holmes On any vacation road trip, you expect your fair share of restaurant potholes, but on a recent 10-day drive through New England, the food was pretty delish. It helped that longtime…

September 19, 2012

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Portland, ME – a city full of surprises

Posted in Art, Black history, Culture, and travel

I was a bit giddy on this crisp Sunday morning, the air more fall than summer, as my travel buddy and I walked down a hill toward a restaurant on our first day in Portland, ME.…

July 24, 2012

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Who sends postcards anymore

Posted in Photos, Postcards, and travel

On vacations in the past, I was usually the last one to pick up postcards to send back home to friends and family. I always saw it as a major interruption of a period when…

September 15, 2009

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Family vacation slides

Posted in Photos

There was a time, it seems, that many families made slides from their family vacations. I come across tons of these slides – paper and glass – from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. With DVDs,…

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