Mary Ann Anderson

Georgia town of LaGrange preserves 2 centuries of history amid gleam of Southern charm

September 18, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

In Lafayette Square, the centerpiece of LaGrange, it is still the 1890s. As I walk the entirety of the red-bricked circular pathway around the square and admire the massive fountain...

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Northern Explorer is a captivating rail ride through heart of New Zealand — no Wi-Fi needed

December 6, 2023 at 11:36 p.m.

On a bright, clear fall morning, the train from Wellington to Auckland clatters away from the rail station precisely as scheduled at 7:55. The temperature hovers coolly in the mid-50s,...

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Head to southern Indiana for fertile vineyards, historic hotels

March 23, 2023 at 3:54 p.m.

Standing at the edge of Patoka Lake in the southern reaches of Indiana, I gaze through a scrim of oaks toward the sparkling blue-gray water, its hue affected in part...

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Arkansas’ Hot Springs is perfect place to do a little exploring

March 10, 2020 at 6:20 p.m.

That Hernando de Soto. He sure got around. The intrepid Spaniard commenced to explore and trade in the West Indies and Central America before trundling down to Peru to conquer...

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Arkansas’ Hot Springs is perfect place to do a little exploring

March 10, 2020 at 5:17 p.m.

Hot Springs honored the well-traveled explorer Hernando de Soto with a life-size statue at the Fordyce Bathhouse on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park.

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Old-fashioned road trip leads to East Tennessee culinary gems

August 30, 2019 at 1:22 p.m.

The tastes of Tennessee are much more than its iconic confectionary delights of Goo Goo Clusters and Moon Pies and the savory taste of Bush's Baked Beans, all of which...

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Lots to love in Lubbock, a West Texas town with a cowboy past and a bright future

July 19, 2019 at 6:22 p.m.

Lubbock is a long way from anywhere, and even in this West Texas town with a population of just over a quarter-million, because of its remoteness it still somehow feels...

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Cranes create a Great Plains spectacle

August 23, 2019 at 4:11 p.m.

Just before sunrise, in the hourglass heart of the North American continent, the temperature has dipped to 15 degrees on the Platte River. I'm shivering in a wooden blind, even...

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Beyond wine, take a spirited journey across France

May 12, 2019 at 8:47 a.m.

Light mist cloaked the ancient hills in Upper Normandy, and from somewhere within this tapestry of seaside cliffs and pastures of flowers, I expected a fire-breathing dragon or a white-haired...

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Tara may not be real, but Georgia’s Gone With the Wind trail is

May 12, 2019 at 8:45 a.m.

HAZLEHURST, Ga. - Atlanta. June 1936. A few patches of the horse-and-buggy Old South remained as the once slow-moving city first named Terminus and then Marthasville began emerging into the...

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