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Every year around this time, for perhaps the past four years, I’ve pledged to take a drive to enjoy the Fall colors on Skyline Drive in the Shenandoah National Park. For some reason I always get detoured. The explosion of reds, oranges and yellows in the area are truly beautiful. I’ve driven around and even through […]
If you planned to see the King Tut exhibit — Tutankhamen and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs at the Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia, you have only a few more days as the exhibit closes at the end of this month.
It’s a great exhibit (see my previous post) and one that […]
The flamboyant, aggressive and publicity-seeking Union commander, General George Armstrong Custer, who later led and died at the infamous Custer’s Last Stand at the Battle of Little Big Horn was also a Civil War hero 14 years earlier, notably at the battle of Gettysburg.
His style of attack was considered by many to be either reckless or […]
“What do you know about stock car racing? Well… watched it on television, of course.” That’s a line from the Tom Cruise movie Days of Thunder. And here’s your chance to see live NASCAR close to DC.
The Martinsville Speedway racetrack is the shortest track on the NASCAR Nextel Cup circuit. At just over a half mile in length, […]
Celebrate the annual “crush” at Tarara Winery’s Great Grape Festival. In it’s 12th year, celebrate wine and wine-making at a winery sitting on the shore of the Potomac, in suburban Leesburg, VA.
Enjoy 15 varieties of wines from their 60-acre vineyard, a grape-stomping competition, food, live music, special events for the kids, apple picking and wagon rides.
You can also […]
In addition to tasting samples from the 18 participating Maryland wineries, the festival offers live music including jazz, reggae, zydeco, oldies and R& B, plus arts and crafts, wine education and a chance to sample food from local restaurants.
The Governor’s Cup awards (best Maryland wines of the year) will be presented on Saturday.
Maryland Wine […]
Watch the Navy’s Blue Angles in their F/A 18 Hornets perform their precision flying routine, numerous aerobatic champions, current and vintage military aircraft, world’s only husband-and-wife aerobatic and skywriting duo and a couple skydiving teams at the Oceana Air Show in Virginia Beach.
Scheduled to appear at the show are:
The ever-popular and crowd pleasing Blue Angels’.
The […]
As the largest summer indoor Antiques Show in the country, the 27th annual Baltimore Summer Antiques Show is the place for antique lovers.
With 550 total local, national and international antique dealers and 60 silver specialists, 30 specializing in Asian Arts, 70 in ceramics, porcelain and pottery and a wide selection of glass dealers selling Steuben, Heisey, Moser, […]
Albuquerque is known for it’s annual balloon festival, but next week you can attend a local balloon festive, complete with colorful, giant hot air balloons.
You can also take a ride in one of the balloons or a vintage biplane as well (subject to availability and weather).
Besides the balloons, there’s also the flying circus air […]
What better way to celebrate the discovery of the stunning Luray Caverns 127 years ago than with a blues, bluegrass and balloon festival?
A dozen brightly colored hot air balloons will launch en mass from Shenk Farm at Luray Caverns on Friday evening and then again twice daily on Saturday and Sunday.
Listen to blues and bluegrass bands including […]
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