Artisan-Crafted Catalina Tiles in Avalon​  The small seaport town of Avalon rises along the rocky coast of Catalina Island like colorful stairs climbing to the blue skies it floats under. Formerly known as Santa Catalina, it is one of California's Channel Islands, located just 29 miles southwest of Los Angeles.  ​Visitors and residen...

Longwood Gardens will open Longwood Reimagined: A New Garden Experience on 22 November 2024. The project is heralded as 'the most ambitious revitalisation of America's greatest centre for horticultural display'. Longwood Gardens is a botanical garden comprising over 1,077 acres of gardens, woodlands, and meadows in the Brandywine Creek Valley at Ke...

​ If the Nazis hadn't taken over the Bauhaus school, Black Mountain College probably would not have developed the gravitas it now has in our collective Western Art-oriented memories... ​Your tour of Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center begins with a mention of its ex-pat and one-time Tarheel founder, Mary Holden Thompson. Thompson realized...

​ Feel history in Appalachia -- in the very center of this 11th largest city in the Southeastern US state of North Carolina, Asheville, is a hotel that you will find in the registry of Historic Hotels of America—- Haywood Park Hotel... ​Following in famed artists Josef and Anni Albers' steps… Finding the "home" of Thomas Wolfe's LOOK HOME...

Saskatchewan, a Canadian province that borders the USA, has a varied landscape, with the north covered by forest and lakes and the south made up of golden fields, grasslands, rolling hills and badlands. Provincial capital Regina is home to the Royal Saskatchewan Museum, with exhibits Canada's First Nations. Grasslands National Park The Grasslands N...

The Equal Justice Initiative has opened the Freedom Monument Sculpture Park. The 17-acre Park explores the legacy of slavery and the lives of enslaved people through contemporary artworks, first-person narratives, and historical artefacts. It includes 170-year-old dwellings from cotton plantations, restraints, and historical objects that represent ...