As a teenager living in Europe, I had an opportunity to learn about World War II firsthand, from a tour of Anne Frank’s house in Amsterdam to standing among thousands of white crosses overlooking the beaches of Normandy. But the most human experience of all was visiting the Dachau Concentration Camp near Munich, Germany where […]
Politics and parties aside, visiting all of the Presidential Libraries is on my Photo Bucket List, so we had to make the Carter Presidential Library & Museum part of our trip to Atlanta. In a tradition started by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, beginning with President Herbert Hoover, there are currently 13 Presidential Libraries. Three down, ten to […]
Bringing my photos from Zoo Atlanta in for a landing, here is one last post. Yes, I could have included them in my Zoo Atlanta Review post, but there were already a lot of other photos in that post. Plus, how could a girl currently trapped living in Kansas miss an opportunity to leverage a Wizard of […]
Founded in the late 1880s when a traveling circus broke down and went bankrupt in Atlanta, the Atlanta Zoo opened in Grant Park with a jaguar, hyena, black bear, camels, and other creatures. The zoo expanded significantly in 1935 when Asa G. Candler, Jr., founder of the Coca-Cola Company and former Atlanta mayor, donated his […]
I kinda wish I’d had this photo available to post up for Valentine’s Day…
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