Part 1. The National Memorial for Peace and Justice — I recently toured with my wife, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, and the Legacy Museum, in Montgomery Alabama. They both tell a heart wrenching story on the history of slavery and how its roots have evolved and continue to impact our society today. Both the Memorial and the…

Part 2. The Old State House and the Old Colony House — During the 1800s, the Rhode Island General Assembly rotated its meetings among the state’s five county courthouses. The courthouse in Providence was known then as the Providence Colony House, with the others named after the other counties of Kent, Bristol, Washington, and Newport. The Old State House Today the Providence…

Part 1. The State House Art and Architecture. — Rhode Island is the smallest state by land area in the United States, but is the second most densely populated state with a little over one million people. In the early 1900s when the State House was built, Rhode Island had the highest per capita income in the country. The…

The Art and Architecture of the Boston Central Library in Copley Square, Part 2 — The entrance to the McKim building is through three double doors on Dartmouth Street across from Copley Square, where today it is used as a research library, museum, exhibition facilities, and administrative offices. …

The Art & Architecture of the Boston Central Library in Copley Square, Part 1 — Part of the Central branch of the Boston Public Library is known as the McKim Building, which was built in 1895 in a Beaux-Arts architectural style designed by Charles McKim, of McKim Meade and White Architects. …

Our Machu Picchu Adventure Part 4 — Machu Picchu is located on the east side of the Andes mountain chain, on the Urubamba River which flows from the southeast of Cusco, through the Sacred Valley, and then northeast to the Machu Picchu mountains. At Machu Picchu the Urubamba River flows around the east, north, and west sides…

Our Machu Picchu Adventure Part 3 — The Sacred Valley of the Incas is a large fertile valley, following the Urubamba River for about 40 miles, from Pisac to Ollantaytambo, where there are two large archeological sites of Inca construction, the Pisac Archaeological Park, and the Ollantaytambo Sanctuary. The valley between these installations is primarily agricultural lands…

Our Machu Picchu Adventure Part 2 — Our next tour began on Monday morning with a flight from Lima Peru, to Cusco. Here we saw the climate and terrain change from a desert coastline along the Pacific, and the arid western slopes of the Andes mountains, to the high jungle at Machu Picchu stretching to the Amazon…

Our Machu Picchu Adventure Part 1 — So much to see and so little time to see it all! But here we go on another travel adventure! Our journey took us on a flight to Lima Peru for a city tour, then to Cuzco for another city tour, an excursion out to the Sacred Valley, and then…