Year in Review: Highlights of 2025
This past year our travel plans were mainly influenced by our daughter’s college search. We drove up and down the Northeast looking at schools from Boston through North Carolina. Wherever we stopped, we found new historic spots, family friendly attractions, and great new lodging options. In 2025, we found time to update some of our…
21 National Historic Parks in the Northeast to Enjoy This Summer
Happy National Parks Week! We personally think EVERY week should be a celebration of our National Parks and ALL of the national historical sites that the National Park Service works so hard to maintain, preserve, and protect for future generations of people to enjoy. But, we’re especially glad to join in the celebration this week.…
Lowell National Historical Park in Lowell, Massachusetts
The city of Lowell, Massachusetts, located just 30 miles north of Boston, was built as a factory city (because of its location next to the Merrimack River and Pawtucket Falls) and became synonymous with the American Industrial Revolution. Named for Francis Cabot Lowell, who is partially credited for creating the power loom, city locals began…
10 Things to Do at theAfrican Burial Ground National Monument in New York City
The African Burial Ground National Monument, located in Lower Manhattan (New York City) honors the millions of enslaved men, women, and children who made up more than a quarter of New York’s labor force in the 17th and 18th centuries. In the early 17th century, Dutch settlers, who founded “New Amsterdam”, brought slave laborers to…
Playing “I Spy” at the JFK National Historic Site in Brookline, MA
There are several places throughout Massachusetts that honor the legacy of America’s 35th President, John F. Kennedy. A great place to learn about the Kennedy family and JFK’s early childhood is Kennedy’s childhood home in Brookline, Massachusetts, just a couple of miles from downtown Boston.
9 Kid Friendly Activities in the Financial District in New York City
The island of Manhattan, the most populated borough of New York City, is filled with dozens of neighborhoods from Harlem on the far upper east side all the way down to the Financial District in Lower Manhattan. The Financial District, also known as Wall Street, run the entire southern most part of the island and…