Celebrating the 4th of July at Old Bethpage Village Restoration

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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

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  Do you have children who love to color and be creative?  Well if you do, I highly recommend making a trip to the Crayola Factory in Easton, Pennsylvania.  My son and his cousins had such a great time here!  They were able to create sculptures with the modeling materials, draw with chalk on the […]

Birthplace of the National Anthem: Fort McHenry

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I have a whole new appreciation for our national anthem when I sing along at a baseball game since visiting Fort McHenry a year ago.  Not wanting to miss a history lesson opportunity, I took my son and his friend to Fort McHenry when we had visited Baltimore for an Oriole and Yankee game. When […]

The Museum of the Moving Image

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When visiting NYC, don’t forget about making a trip to Astoria, Queens.   Hop on the Q or N subway train and check out the Museum of the Moving Image.  If I had to vote, this would be one of my all time favorite museums because it is a  great place to take kids.   […]

Welcome to America: A Visit to the Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island

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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

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    On a visit down in New Orleans, I had the opportunity to take my son to the National World War II Museum.  Both my parents were with us, so they were able to tell my son stories first hand since their fathers had served in World War II.  My grandfather, Jack Scofield was […]

All Aboard the Red Caboose

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   In the beautiful countryside of Lancaster County you can stay at the Red Caboose Motel right in the middle of Strasburg, Pennsylvania trains country.  A couple of summers ago, we met my sister and kids at The Red Caboose and had a memorable time.  We stayed in a caboose one night and then the […]

Digging for Diamonds

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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

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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

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  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, […]