The Giant Coffee Pot of Bedford located on historic Route 30 in Pennsylvania is the kind of roadside attraction that gets me excited for a road trip. The Giant Coffee Pot of Bedford This unique building, built somewhere between 1925-1927 depending on which resource you’re reading, originally served as a lunch counter attached to a…
Historical Sites
Lost River Cave: An Overview of Kentucky’s Only Underground Boat Tour
This past month, my family found ourselves in Bowling Green to explore Kentucky’s only underground boat tour. I’m not a stranger to Kentucky’s Cave Country. When my husband and I were married, we spent part of our honeymoon in the area. We had hoped to tour Mammoth Cave National Park, but arrived in the peak…
Visiting the Oklahoma City National Memorial in Pictures
April 19, 1995. 9:02 a.m. The moment of one of the worst domestic terrorist attacks in the US. The moment that changed Oklahoma City and a nation forever. The moment when a fertilizer bomb went off at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Hundreds of people were injured, and 168 were killed,…
St. Paul’s- the Little Chapel in NYC that Stood through 9/11
If St. Paul’s Chapel in New York City seems out of place amid the towering metal and glass high rises near Ground Zero, it may be because it was built in another era. This colonial-period church is the oldest continually used public building in Manhattan. The charming stone exterior, that seemed so different from its…
Civil War Sites in the South
Spring Hill, Tennessee My family is a sucker for historical sites. As far as I’m concerned, there’s no better place to learn history than where it happened. Over the years, we’ve visited dozens, if not hundreds of sites of historical significance but some of my favorites remain the Civil War sites in the South…
The B-17 Aluminum Overcast
As you can imagine, travel and field trips played a big role in home educating (or road schooling, as I like to say) my three children. This post was originally part of a Field Trip Friday series that I ran each week to offer field trip ideas to other homeschooling families, but you don’t need to homeschool your kids…
