National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial in Arlington, Virginia
The National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial in Arlington, Virginia, honors the 184 victims who died in the five-sided building or aboard American flight…
Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia
Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia is the final resting place for more than 400,000 American service members and their families. About 8,500…
Udvar-Hazy Center — part of the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Chantilly, Virginia
Planes hang from above. Rockets stand tall. Artifacts proclaim the story of air and space exploration, and what it has meant for…
The Capitol at Colonial Williamsburg
Patrick Henry was on a roll. “Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell, and George the Third …” Shouts of…
Raleigh Tavern in Colonial Williamsburg
It was May 17, 1769. America’s independence from Britain was more than seven years away. And members of Virginia‘s colonial legislature, the…
Chowning’s Tavern in Colonial Williamsburg
The polished wooden tables gleam in the candlelight. The air is rich with the mingled aromas of meaty, 18th-century fare and the…
Things to Do in Colonial Williamsburg post-Lockdown
Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia continues to move back toward the robust programming that made the world’s largest living history museum such a…
Winery at La Grange in Haymarket, Virginia
The Winery at La Grange in Haymarket, Virginia, features 5.6 acres of vineyards and a three-storey, red-brick, 18th-century manor house with a…
Restaurant Report: Carlyle in Shirlington
Northern Virginia began reopening under Phase One last Friday, and two friends and I made plans to meet for our first restaurant…
Colonial Williamsburg — part 8 of the great American road trip
Williamsburg: The Story of a Patriot stars Jack Lord as John Fry, a fictitious Virginia planter elected to the House of Burgesses…
Tennessee to Virginia — part 7 of the great American road trip
Great Smoky Mountains National Park spans the border between Tennessee and North Carolina. The roughly 40 miles that I drove up and…
How to Beat the Crowds at Colonial Williamsburg
There’s no place in the world quite like Colonial Williamsburg. The living history museum recreates Virginia‘s second capital city during the time…