There are an endless number of reasons to visit the magnetic city of New Orleans, but this time, for me, there was one overpowering one: t...

When Meriwether Lewis and William Clark together with the 31 other members of their “Corps of Discovery” finally reached the Pacific Oce...

On September 12 th , 1944 newly-arrived observers at Mountain Farm RAF base near Oxford, England might have been excused for thinking th...

It was while reading a largely-historical spy novel set in World War II occupied France, that I became fascinated by descriptions of an un...

My first pair of tiny-sized hip boots was a surprise Saturday morning gift from a father who was preparing me – not for an introduction to...

Ordinarily when traveling, my reading list is determined by several books I have taken with me, or – more frequently – by volumes uncove...

In the world before written languages were universal, and still today in the far reaches of the most remote regions of the earth, it has...

In a way, this column is a continuation of one I wrote weeks ago, in which I paid tribute to “Old Carl”, the venerable maple sugar-maker...

I recently attended the funeral of an old friend; someone I have known as a neighbor for many of the years Utah has been my home. Not on...

Perhaps it was inevitable that so remarkable a set of characters as William Dampier, an Englishman, and Alexander Selkirk, a Scot should c...