Michigan Vacation

The Mission Houses Museum’s new blog ThaddeusJournal.org provides insight into the journey of Protestant missionaries who traveled on the Brig Thaddeus to the Sandwich Islands now known as Hawaii in October 1819. The museum posts daily excerpts from a journal kept by the travelers during the six-month trek. The blog entries are a prelude to [...]

Sackets Harbor, NY – The four, sparkling, big waters of the St. Lawrence River, Lake Ontario, Niagara River and Lake Erie are companions to one of America’s Byways and a National Recreation Trail. The Great Lakes Seaway Trail parallels 518 miles of freshwater shoreline in New York and Pennsylvania. Now available free – in print [...]

“The Gettysburg Festival “Celebrating America’s Cultural Arts” is an extraordinary 10-day arts festival featuring more than 60 world-class events. It runs from June 18-28. It is the only major festival in the world focused exclusively on celebrating great American artists, composers and creative geniuses in all genres of the arts.
James Earl Jones will be featured [...]

Youngstown, NY – On July 3-5, more than 2,300 colorful historic reenactors clad in red, white, blue and buckskin will bring the 250th anniversary of the French and Indian War to life at Old Fort Niagara in Youngstown, NY. The best way to reach the big event that is the 2009 “Signature Event” of [...]