“Some of the greatest stress in life can come from changes – both positive and negative,”

 from Dr. Matthew Chang, director of RUHS Behavioral Health, part of the Riverside University Health System in Moreno, California.

 

 

9 Ways to Make Chicken Pot Pie in 20 Minutes

 

 

 

 

 

63 Of The Shortest Celebrity Marriages

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

these were found all over London for while prostitution was legal, the ladies of the evening were not allowed to pick up customers on the street—so stacks of these were left in telephone booths (obviously a few years ago) and my late husband pick up many of these cards (that are exactly like post cards) and brought them home as souvenirs to share with his friends.

 

 

Elizabeth Brownrigg: Child Abuse and Murder in the 18th Century

 

 

 

Grosmont rail station

Grosmont rail station

 

Grosmont is a  town set in the North Yorkshire Moors and is the northern terminus of the 18 mile long North Yorkshire Moors Railroad, one of the world’s oldest lines–built in the 1830’s.

 

 

It takes it’s name from a small priory founded about 1200, which stood near by on the north bank of the River Esk.  It has since been lost to all.

 

 

The Station Tavern, which is family run was built in 1836 next to the railway station.   It has a bar, and separate dining room as well as a patio area outside.

 

 

Grosmont also has a Gallery and Jazz Cafe which offers fine art, hot coffee and cool jazz on Front Street.  The building at one time has been an undertakers Joiner’s workshop from Victorian time and then in the 1950’s a petrol station.

 

 

As well as a Co-op Shop with extensive arts and crafts as well as railway souvenirs available for purchase.

 

 

 

logo

 

 

Enzian and Ace Cafe team up for a downtown Orlando screening of ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’

 

 

 

 

 

 

Get A Corner Of Canary Wharf To Call Your Own With Shared Ownership

 

 

 

Highlights of Lebanon holiday

 

Explore art and archaeological sites in Lebanon through virtual tours

 

 

Lebanon

It’s fate has always been dictated by it’s geographical situation.  A place of passage, meeting and exchange, in touch, like Syria,  with the interior of the continent.  Lebanon is even more than this, from the earliest antiquity its inhabitants, dwelling in cities clustered on the shore, were sailors and merchants traveling to Egypt and the West, and they were later to scatter far afield, founding trading posts and colonies throughout the entire Mediterranean.

Larousse  Encyclopedia of Archaeology

General Editor:  Gilbert Charles-Picard

Translated from French by Anne Ward

 

 

VIRTUAL TOURS OF LEBANON’S SITES

Sunset celebration Key West

 

 

Gifts for Cooks

 

 

 

 

The Yorkshire Museum, part of York Museums Trust, is home to some of the country's finest historical treasures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5-Minute Really True Stories for Bedtime

 

 

 

 

Things to Do in the Texas Hill Country

 

 

Historic Dance Halls of Texas

 

 

Texas Hill Country

 

Did you know that there was a German Settlement in the Hill Country of Texas  and that they built community centers to carry on Old World music and dance that would bcome Cowboy dancehalls?  And many of these halls still exist with still featuring the traditional German music while others keep up Texas two-steppin.

 

These include

Gruene Hall

Near New Braunfels

 

Luckenbach Dance Hall

near Fredericksburg

 

 

The Spirit of a Bandera Dance Hall Lives On

 

 

Dance Hall Photograph - Luckenbach Dance Hall by Cathy P Jones

 

 

 

 

 

HOW TO FRAME YOUR SHOTS TO AVOID EXCESSIVE CROPPING

 

 

Hay-on-Wye guide, a book town for bibliophiles in South Wales: castle bookshop with honesty box

Hay-on-Wye Guide: The Adorably Cute Book Town of Wales

 

 

Hay-on-Wye

Brfore Hay-on-Wye was known for books it was just a bustling market town, and had been for over 700 yrars.  On Thursdays, its Memorial Square, Cheddar Market, Butter Market and the area around the Clock Tower were teeming with locals and tourists alike, jostling for a bargain at more than 40 stalls.

Until the 20th century, Hay-on-Wye was known for little more than this, and the fact that Francis Kilvert, the Victorian diarist, lived nearby.  Then there was also a local solicitor who purportedly got rid of his wife in the early 20th century by putting weed killer in her breakfast.  Yet Hay-on-Wye gained rral popularity when a local man called Richard Booth set out for America on a mission to boost the prospects of his hometown.  Noticing libraries there were closing, he skipped back containers of second-hand books and opened a bookshop in 1961.  Others followed suit and an emboldened Booth even declared the town an independent state and himself king, as part of an April Food Day publicity stunt in 1977.  Eleven years later, Hay Literary Festival was launched, bringing thousands of visitors to a town that had such humble beginnings.

Expanding Your Horizons

By Jenny Rowe

Discover Britain

December 2019

 

A Visit To Hay On Wye, Hereford, Wales

 

 

From Daytona International Speedway

 

 

 

November 7th: Home for the Holidays – Holiday Open House

 

 

 

Otadin:  a fierce British tribe used by the Romans to guard the (Harian’s) Wall

 

 

Home For the Holidays

 

 

Historic Key West cemetery: A scenic stop that is full of stories

 

More of the Key  West cemetery

 

The grave of Earl Johnson (above) but I understand that while the grave stone still stands, this strikings statue no longer stands on the grave–it was destroyed by a storm.  Johnson resided in Key West’s Oldest House from about 1940 until his death in 1972. The home had long been the family home and was occupied by the same family for over 140 years.a

 

 

Also located here is the Watling Crypt, the final resting place of Captain Francis Watlington,  

a mariner who lived from 1804-1886 and he owned “The Oldest House”, which Johnson was its last family heir.

 

 

Walk a bit further and you will see an overgrown lot and decaying, but ornate fence which contains four generations of the Porter Clan

Joseph Yates Porter actually founded Public Health Bureau in Florida

 

 

 

Captain Francis Watlington House,

 

 

Picture of

 

Planning a weekend getaway?

 

 

The Natural History Museum in London

collection include an actual vial of stardust.  The microscopic diamonds are “the oldest things you will ever see” –they were formed billions of years ago before our solar system existed.

 

The World’s Most Spectacular Holiday Light Displays

 

 

Jewish Museum of Florida

 

 

Miami Beach

Jewish Museum of Florida (NR listed 1980)

301 Washington Ave

305-672-5044

 

The Jewish Museum of Florida is located in a former synagogue that housed Miami Beach’s first Jewish congregation. In addition to the permanent exhibit, “Florida Jews in the Military,” the museum houses the MOSAIC, Photo collection of Florida Jewish History.  The museum’s collections and research center reflects Florida Jewish history since 1763 and is available for use by the public. The adjacent building at 311 Washington served during World War II as a USO facility for the many personnel then stationed in th Miami Beach community.

Florida World War II Heritage Trail

A Florida Heritage Public Publication

 

 

 

 

Virtual Event:  Birdwatching 101: How to Study Birds

 

 

Foods that may prevent sleep

Foods and drinks with caffeine (coffee, tea, cola, chocolate

 

Alcohol (especially excess)

 

Sugar and food high in sugar or refined carbohydrates

 

Foods likely to cause gas, heartburn, or indigestion, such as fatty or spicy food, garlic, beans, cucumbers and peanuts.

 

High protein foods like meat that inhibit sleep by blocking the synthesis of serotonin and make us more alert.

 

 

BEACH BREAKS FOR 2021

 

 

 

Cornwall—-if you haven’t read it yet you can go back to June 2016 to join me on my solo trip to corn wall — where I stayed at a small inn in Tintagel and wandered about by bus for a month.

 

TINTAGEL CASTLE: HISTORY AND LEGEND

 

 

 

 

People Make Glasgow | Official Guide to the City of Glasgow

 

 

Glasgow is an elegant city—and while my heart belongs to the ancient streets and alleys of Edinburgh’s Royal Mile I also enjoy my visit to Glasgow

 

 

Four New Mexican Hotels to Beat the Cold-Weather Blues

 

 

longwood-inn.jpg 

 

The Longwood Hotel

This historical hotel is now an office building:  It’s wooden-frame vernacular with Italianate details faces the Henck-Tinker Building across 427/Ronald Reagan.

In 1883, E.W. Hench had Josiah Clouser build the hotel which was completed in 1888 and was calld the Waltham hotel, until 1893 when it became the Longwood  Hotel.  Unfortunately 1893 was the winter (into 1894) of a historically severe freeze—there are reports that the temperature dropped so rapidly that it froze the sap in the citrus trees causing them to explore with bark flying everywhere.  90% of the trees were destroyed taking the economy with it.  The hotel closed soon after.  It was eventually purchased by George E. Clark who renaed it the St. George Hotel.

 

A year later, Clark died and the hotel changed again this time into the Orange and Black Hotel, a gambling house.  It had two subsequent owners until 1932 when it was used for the George Barr Umpire School.  And five years later it had another owner.  In 1966 “Johnny Tiger” was filmed here.  It starred Chad Everett as a half-breed Seminole influenced by a school teacher played by Robert Taylor.  In 1979 Cornell Univeristy used it for a hotel operation school.  In the 1980s it was renovated for offices.

 

There have been reports that the hotel is haunted with lights that go off and on in different areas, foot steps have been heard when no one was  in the building and elevators that open and run by itself.  Cold spots and shuffling sounds have been reported on the 3rd floor.  Report of “people” in the building resulted in room-by-room search by the local police but no one was found.   I knew one lady who told me she never believed in ghosts until she experienced the building and offered to introduce me to the ghost if I ever dropped by—sadly I was not able to do so.

 

Longwood Walking Tours

 

longwood-inn-governors-meeting.jpg

 

 

 

York Minster:  Sunday Prayers and Digital Worship Schedules

Although not as high as in protein as legumes, many other foods such as nuts, seeds, nut better, gains and even vegetables like spinach and broccoli add protein to the diet.

 

The Palace of Gold (New Vrindaban), Hare Krishna Temple, Moundsville, WV  

 

 

 

Vue des ruines du Château- Pèlerin

 near Atlit on the northern coast of Israel, about 8.1 miles south of Haifa.

 

The fight over Château Pèlerin—the ancient Crusader fortress

 

 

 

Templar Castles

Generalized statements about Templar castles are apt to be even more confusing than other generalizations about them:  for instance the greatest of Templar Castles.  At’lit or Castle Pilgrim, built to be impregnable and never in fact taken by the Templars’ enemies, was not built until 1218.  Thus to list the castles or speak generally of their characteristics would be to present a false picture of the situation in the twelfth century.  The Templars never held more than ten or so castles at any given moment in their history, far less than the Hospitallers, who already held as many as seven or eight castles by 1160, and at one time or another possessed a total of 56 castles in Latin Syria

The Templar Knights of God

Edward Burman

 

 

10 Crusader Castles

 

Lakeside Inn Mt Dora, Florida one of my favorite towns in central Fl.

 

Edinburgh’s Real Mary King’s Close to broadcast first ever paranormal investigation

 

 

Loring Chase first saw the area that is now Winter Park (Florida) in Feb. 1881 and bought 600 acres for $13,000 in partnership with his Mass. boyhood friend.  Oliver Chapman, who was visiting relatives in Sorrento.

 

 

How This 600-Year-Old Castle Weathered Wars And Fires To Become A Symbol Of Okinawa

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Leave a Reply