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Brotherhood: America's Oldest Winery
The extensive vinicultural history of New York’s Hudson Valley has been celebrated for over three hundred years. When French and Dutch...

Tim Murphy
Aug 9, 20204 min read


Trail Trials: Mount Beacon
Standing 1,610 feet above sea-level, Mount Beacon is the tallest point in New York’s Hudson Highlands. The mountain—scarred with the...

Tim Murphy
Aug 2, 20205 min read


Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater
Frank Lloyd Wright’s legacy has become synonymous with awe-inspiring architecture. Over the course of his seventy-year career, Wright...

Tim Murphy
Jul 12, 20209 min read


Fort Necessity
The Ohio Country was the gateway to the Northwest Territory—a vast expanse of seemingly boundless natural resources spanning from the...

Tim Murphy
May 10, 202012 min read


Trail Trials: Kaaterskill Falls
The wilderness of New York’s Great Northern Catskill Mountains bear witness to the captivating cascades of Kaaterskill Falls—a 260-foot,...

Tim Murphy
Mar 22, 20205 min read


Vanderbilt Mansion National Historical Park
The community of Hyde Park, New York, has an extensive and storied history of affluence and regality. For centuries, the town—positioned...

Tim Murphy
Mar 15, 20206 min read


Ohiopyle State Park
Nestled in the sprawling wilderness of southwest Pennsylvania sits the tiny borough of Ohiopyle, whose population barely exceeds fifty...

Tim Murphy
Mar 1, 20208 min read


The Citie of Henricus
May 1611—Jamestown was a floundering colony. Supply shortages, famine, disease, starvation, and Indian warfare constantly burdened the...

Tim Murphy
Feb 23, 202010 min read


Diggin' In Virginia XLVII: Spillman Farm
Last November, I attended Diggin’ In Virginia XLVII at Spillman Farm, my third visit to this site and eighteenth relic hunt overall with...

Tim Murphy
Feb 9, 20205 min read


Bethlehem Steel
The rusting blast furnaces that tower over Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, once powered the largest shipbuilding company and second-largest...

Tim Murphy
Aug 18, 20198 min read
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