Part of the 100 Things to Do Between the Bridge and the Beach Series Every Wednesday hundreds of antique dealers, junk buyers, deal seekers, gawkers and shop-a-holics head for largest weekly auction in the world – YES, that’s WORLD. Dixon’s Furniture Auctions is located in Crumpton, Maryland on the Eastern […]
Art & Culture
Art Galleries, Museums, Heritage Sites, Ethnic Communities, Customs and Traditions
#5 Denton Foundry is an Art-full Dollhouse
Home to the Caroline County Council of Arts Part of the 100 Things to Do Between the Bridge and the Beach series Several years ago, Denton renovated and preserved this little green house, circa […]
#2 Unicorn Books – 30,000 Used and Rare Books
Unicorn Books in Trappe, Maryland Part of the 100 Things to Do Between the Bridge and the Beach series For 30 years, Unicorn Books has been located on the west bound side of Route 50 between Easton and Cambridge. Who would guess that there are over 30,000 […]
#1 Visit Harriet Tubman’s Birthplace
Harriet Tubman’s Birthplace Part of the 100 Things to Do Between the Bridge and the Beach series Every American child learns about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad in elementary school. But how many people know that she was born and raised and did her rescuing on the Eastern […]
Mark Twain House – #7 in National Geographic’s 10 Best Historic Houses
National Geographic just released the third edition of their best-selling book The 10 Best of Everything. In it they rank the 10 top historic houses in the world. The Mark Twain House in Hartford, CT is ranked #7. We visited this house and the adjacent museum on our way to Maine […]
Christmas at Mount Vernon – Catch the Christmas Spirit
Christmas at Mount Vernon is a program at the famous estate of George Washington that offers the visitor an authentic 18th century Christmas experience. It runs the full Christmas season from the day after Thanksgiving to the Epiphany (January 6). Mount Vernon is beautiful all year long with its […]
Why Visit Mount Vernon? Uncle Tony’s Perspective
Mount Vernon is the 18th century Georgian-style mansion located on the Potomac River in Virginia just sixteen miles from Washington, DC. The mansion that George Washington called home is situated on a 50 acre plantation which is now a living heritage museum and a national historic landmark. George and Martha […]