Travels' Tapestry
April 7th, 2010
Written by Ann Marina in Travels' Tapestry with 0 Comments
Less than a three-hour drive south of Anchorage, the city of Kenai (“keen-eye”) is at the heart of the Kenai Peninsula. With a population of about 7,000, Kenai is on the western side of the peninsula, where the Kenai River, famous for salmon fishing, flows into Cook Inlet.The name Kenai, said to derive from Kenayskaya, a Russian term, means “flat, barren land.” Today, however, the richly cultural...
March 15th, 2010
Written by Randy Mason in Travels' Tapestry with 0 Comments
Regional cuisine is a fascinating phenomenon. If you start seeing signs that advertise runzas, then you must be in southeastern Nebraska. These baked, blue-collar sandwiches, sometimes called bierocks, are pastry pockets filled with ground meat, cabbage and onions. Whatever the name, they came from Germany and Eastern Europe–parts of the Austro-Hungarian region where many of Nebraska’s early...
March 3rd, 2010
Written by USARiseUp Staff in Travels' Tapestry with 0 Comments
No city reflects the tumultuous journey of African-Americans more vividly than Memphis, a Mississippi River port city whose many cultural landmarks inevitably invoke both smiles and tears.In the years before the Civil War, the city’s economy soared thanks to King Cotton and the backs of slaves that worked the fields for the white landowners. After the war, waves of newly freed African-Americans...
February 15th, 2010
Written by Randy Mason in Travels' Tapestry with 0 Comments
We take trips for many different reasons. Sometimes it’s to visit family and friends. Or sometimes it’s to get away from them! We look for destinations that will dazzle our senses with natural beauty, or to revel in great art and architecture.
Then there are special places where only echoes remain. And that fascinates us too.
Take Nicodemus, Kansas. Like so many rural communities, the population...
January 21st, 2010
Written by Randy Mason in Travels' Tapestry with 0 Comments
It is amazing to discover the vast boundaries of the Navajo Nation. The largest tribe in the U.S. still occupies some 26,000 square miles sprawling across parts of three states – northeastern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico, and southern Utah.Not that it is the most fertile or inviting terrain. The high desert is a rocky, dusty, windswept place where farming seldom yields real abundance. Sheep...
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