You have to travel to the very south­ern por­tion of Illinois to dis­cover one of its hid­den trea­sures, the stal­wart Fort Massac, near Metropolis, Illinois. Overlooking the Ohio River, this replica of the orig­i­nal 1802 American fort is Illinois’ first state park, ded­i­cated in 1908.

On a nice day in May, we headed into Chicago to do some sight­see­ing. The idea was to spend lit­tle money and revisit old haunts and rekin­dle old mem­o­ries, not to visit the muse­ums. Instead, we would check out some of the places we used to go all the time or lived near and loved, and walk our old neighborhood.

Some Like it Cold! So when the tem­per­a­tures start to drop, escape to Minnesota’s Northwoods and expe­ri­ence a majes­tic win­ter won­der­land at The Historic Grand View Lodge!

On Sunday, October 4th from 11:30am– 4pm, fam­i­lies and friends can step back in time and dis­cover life before mod­ern tech­nol­ogy, at Garfield Farm Museum’s 28th annual Harvest Days. An archae­o­log­i­cal dig will be this year’s spe­cial feature.

Free Passport Stamp Book Earns Visitors Commemorative Civil War Gifts
The Pennsylvania Tourism Office and nine county tourism bureaus within Pennsylvania’s Dutch Country Roads Region announced a new Civil War Trails Passport to History pro­gram that rewards trav­el­ers with com­mem­o­ra­tive Civil War gifts after vis­it­ing a vari­ety of attrac­tions along the recently devel­oped PA Civil War Trails […]