Blue Highways is the story of author William Least Heat Moon’s journey through the United States in a van in the early 1980’s. He sets out after a breaking up with his wife and losing his job to take to “the open road in search of places where change did not mean ruin and where time and men and […]
Back in April, when I (and the rest of Rhode Island) had had just about enough of the brutal winter weather, I jumped at the chance to attend a work conference in Savannah, Georgia. Because my office deals with research vessels, most of our meetings are in beautiful coastal locations. I had been eager to […]
For years I’d been wanting to see the Wright Brothers National Memorial. I’m not quite sure why, but something about this windy, seaside monument always seemed a little romantic to me. I got a chance to visit when I flew down to the Outer Banks for a wedding on a beautiful and sunny early summer […]