Why You Should Take Kids to Fancy Restaurants
Readers often ask me what we do for dining when we travel and if we ever bring our children to “fancy” restaurants. When I reply “Sure, all the time”, my response is usually met with surprise and the follow up question, “why?” My answer involves a whole list of reasons why we do explore upscale…
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, MA
A New Yorker married to a Bostonian in the late 1860s, Isabella Stewart Gardner and her husband, John, travelled extensively and were inspired by the art they saw throughout the world. Gardner began collecting art and built a home, which she named Fenway Court, in Boston in the early 1900s. Today, all three floors of…
Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts
Celebrating its 150th birthday in 2020, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts is the 5th largest art museum in America. The museum owns over 450,000 pieces of art in its collection, which includes paintings, photography, prints, drawing, musical instruments, textiles, and jewelry.
10 Places We Love in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania is a big state- over 46,000 square miles, over 12 million people, and several popular cities. I remember the first time my husband and I, pre-children, drove a lengthy part of Interstate 76 to get to Pittsburgh (one of the first baseball parks we visited); it felt like the road went on forever. Many…
Five Things to Do at the Yorktown Battlefield in Yorktown, VA
In the fall of 1781, British General Lord Cornwallis, and over 8,000 British troops, surrendered to General George Washington at Yorktown, ending the Revolutionary War and solidifying independence. The site of that battle and and surrender is now part of the Colonial National Historic Park, one of the first parks created, in 1930. The park…
7 Stops on the Tour of the Massachusetts State House
Located in downtown Boston, on the south side of Beacon Hill and overlooking the Boston Common and Back Bay, the Massachusetts State House was constructed in 1798 and served as the state house until the mid 1880s. The land where the capitol was built was donated by John Hancock, the first elected governor of Massachusetts…