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Brian Jewell
Brian is the CEO & Executive Editor of The Group Travel Leader Inc. During more than two decades, his career in travel journalism has taken him to 48 U.S. states and dozens of foreign countries.
Photo courtesy Montgomery CVB Looking at a museum exhibit is one thing, but hearing a personal story about the civil rights movement from someone who participated in it is something else entirely. During the 1960s, active civil rights supporters were nicknamed Foot Soldiers, and today visitors to the state can meet with some of these […]
Alabama's Civil Rights Trail depicts heroism and hope.
On a Friday morning, the air around Manassas is soft and quiet. Dew drops shimmer on the green rolling hills outside of town, and all is peaceful. But it was not always so. In July of 1861, young and inexperienced troops from the Union and Confederate armies met for the first time on the […]
The National Museum of the Marine Corps is one of those places that gives you chills. Located in Quantico near a major Marine base, this museum opened in 2006 and has become one of the most popular tourist attractions in Northern Virginia, drawing some 500,000 visitors annually. Walking through the place today, I understood why […]
I’ve always thought that the National Parks Service was one of the greatest ideas to come out of America (you know, besides ‘All men are created equal,’ ‘I have a dream,’ ‘Tear down this wall,’ and all of the other inspirational stuff). But during my daylong visit to the National Mall in Washington, I decided […]
Artwork takes on a whole new hue when you get to talk to the people who are creating it. Today I visited St. Charles, a town in eastern Missouri known for it historic 1800s downtown and its association with Lewis and Clark’s expedition. There’s plenty of charm on the brick-lined streets, and many historic sites […]
The story of Jesse James, which I knew little of before this trip through Missouri, just keeps getting weirder and weirder. Today I visited the Jesse James Wax Museum in Stanton, a small Missouri town not far from St. Louis. Official history indicates that Jesse James was killed in 1882 in a rented house in […]
To many students of history, Jesse James is one of the most notorious villains ever to live in the United States, robbing banks and killing enemies all over the country for decades during the mid-1800s. But for a fair number of his contemporaries in western Missouri, James was a freedom fighter and folk hero. I […]
Right by the beach at Florida's Emerald Coast, Eden Gardens State Park specializes in picturesque botanical and historic home offerings.
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