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Travel: Travel With a Passion: Cooperstown, NY

* What to see Up in Last of the Mohicans country, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (above) waxes both poetic and playful […]

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Travel: Travel With a Passion: Charlottesville, VA

* What to do Thomas Jefferson’s neoclassical home, Monticello, is as historically fascinating as it is architecturally significant: Its dome and columns, of course, are […]

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Travel: Charleston Architecture

The rain started to fall not long after we arrived in downtown Charleston. We’re talking biblical-grade rain: fat and window-rattling, rain that came down so […]

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Travel: Travel With a Passion: Bucks County

* What to do Tour the James A. Michener Art Museum (above), with its collection of Pennsylvania Impressionist works, many of them given by Philly’s […]

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Travel: Travel With a Passion: Boston

* What to do From the Paul Revere House to the Nichols House Museum to the Old North Church, the city bursts with Colonial history […]

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Travel: Cooking in the Berkshires

It started out as a weekend of heirloom beet salads and ended up, as usual, with burgers. Our trip to a country hotel in the […]

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Travel: Salem by Moonlight

At some point, “family vacation” becomes an oxymoron: Where do you go with teenagers? Ours acquiesced to Salem, Massachusetts, a town once gripped by hysterical […]

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Travel: Insiders’ Island

I boarded the jet for Nantucket stuffed up from cold symptoms and allergies, but I felt better as soon as I stepped onto the tarmac […]

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Travel: Vintage Visits: Chester County

From 14-year-old French Creek Ridge Vineyards in Elverson, an hour west of Philadelphia, through the winding back roads of Chester County to Chester Springs and […]

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Travel: Vintage Visits: Bucks County

Joseph Maxian, dressed in a grape-patterned tie and a vest embroidered with wine labels, is lecturing about the sediment that settles at the bottom of […]

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Travel: Vintage Visits: Atlantic County

You can make a weekend of touring the wineries of southern New Jersey, which, legend holds, has been a grape-growing region since the time of […]

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Travel: Wake of the Storm

The only thing you need to know for a perfect Bermuda vacation is this: You should always be close enough to the ocean to see […]

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Travel: Go With The Gang: Mountain Lodge in West Virginia

The pick: The BrazenHead Inn in Mingo Village, in the Potomac Highlands. The area features skiing at Snowshoe, trout fishing, endless hiking and mountain biking. […]

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Travel: A Tuscan Villa

The pick: Villa Salicotta, on the Umbrian border of Tuscany. Feast on golden countryside vistas from this peaceful hilltop perch. Stone walls and antique furniture […]

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Travel: Go With The Gang: A Southwest Houseboat

Whether tooling past Arizona’s colorful cliffs on Lake Mohave, or charting a course through 110-mile Lake Mead, this slow cruiser offers a novel way to […]