Tag: travel
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New England Travels
Generally speaking, August in Texas is a terrible, terrible thing. So I planned a trip to escape to New England and catch up with a few friends, visit a few museums, and drink a few beers. Ironically, the temps in New England were about the same as they were in Texas, but it will still…
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A Historic House Museum Doing Everything Right

We all have our museum bucket lists–places that we desperately want to visit. Sometimes, it’s because of an admiration for whoever’s home it was. (See Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House). Sometimes it’s due to its place in a favorite book (See Green Gables). Sometimes it’s because you admire the work that they’re doing (See the…
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Where I’ve Been and Where I’ll Be
This has been another summer of travel, mostly museum related, and there’s more travel ahead. Part of me has grand dreams of writing some thoughtful posts about some of these trips, but the practical side of me is starting to dump items off of the to do list. It seems like my only hope of…
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Place Matters
If I had unlimited vacation time and funds, I could have quite the kidlit history summer. The bi-annual L. M. Montgomery conference just wrapped up on Prince Edward Island. Way back in 2002, my dear friend Amber and I made it to the conference, and it was a trip of a life time. In a…
