One of my favorite things to do is celebrate real meanings of holidays. The Old Bethpage Village Restoration, located on Long Island, NY is a recreation of a 19th-century village. This living museum is a smaller scale Colonial Williamsburg or Old Sturbridge Village. Visitors came experience live demonstrations, which offer individualized attention since the […]
Fun Times at the Crayola Factory
The Museum of the Moving Image
Welcome to America: A Visit to the Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island
Last May when my son was learning about immigration in school we decided to make a day trip to the most acknowledged symbols of freedom, the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island. We took the ferry from Battery Park, New York with tickets that we purchased online. Ticket prices are $24 for adults and […]
The National WWII Museum
All Aboard the Red Caboose
Digging for Diamonds
We visited the Herkimer Diamond Mines in Herkimer, New York last summer. Herkimer Diamonds are quartz crystals. For $26 ($10 for adults & $8 for kids) we spent hours with our hammers cracking rocks, and we found many “diamonds.” My dusty boys had a lot of fun looking for hidden treasures. There is also a […]
The House of Seven Gables
Anyone who has read The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne would enjoy touring the house that inspired his gothic novel. The house, one time owned by Hawthorne’s cousin Susanna Ingersol is in Salem, Massachusetts. The childhood stories Hawthorne heard from his cousin inspired him to write the famous novel, but he was adamant about the […]
Gettysburg
On Memorial Day weekend last year, we headed to Gettysburg since my son was learning about the Civil War in school and we had a fun, educational weekend! We started at the Gettysburg Museum and Visitor Center. We purchased the Gettysburg value ticket which included a licensed battlefield guide bus tour and the cyclorama, […]