Corning Museum Beaded Glass Bracelets

Glassy-eyed Travel: Corning Museum

Continuing our Summer Travel series that focuses on places now open and ready for tourists, here’s another of our Places To See for those of you venturing forth whether near or far. . . . as a material, [glass] has properties and characteristics we are only beginning to understand. Adam Savage, TV Host If your […]

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Ladder Company 3 Fire Truck.

Discover Prompt 7: Below

A headline in our Knoxville News-Sentinel today announced: New York City’s death toll from the coronavirus rose past 3,200 on Tuesday, eclipsing the number killed at the World Trade Center on 9/11.” Associated Press What it means for those of us who are staying at home, watching the news intensely, and wondering if we really […]

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Window at American Girl NYC decorated for Christmas

Merry Christmas 2017

Our Christmas wish to you:  May your holidays be filled with family and friends and all the joys of the season. And just for fun, we’re adding a few 2015 photos we took  in New York City where twinkling store windows, festive colors, and people posing in Rockefeller Center made the holiday a little more […]

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Weekly Photo Challenge: One Love

Within one hour of landing in New York City and searching for lunch on the Upper West Side in December of 2015, we walked in to Jacob’s Pickles and were seated near a young couple at the same longish table in the front window.  (It’s not uncommon to share tables in the city’s space-challenged restaurants, […]

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Weekly Photo Challenge: Optimistic

If you’re in retail, you already know that it takes a certain amount of optimism just to stay in the game.  But add to that a cold December in New York City, a temporary tent, and goods that only big-city residents (not tourists) would carry home, and you have a renewed appreciation for those who […]

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