Durham’s American Tobacco Campus

The tobacco industry was the base of Durham’s economy for a hundred years.

Raleigh, North Carolina’s Capital city

Raleigh, the capital city of North Carolina, holds the largest intact 19th century neighborhood, called Oakwood.

I ignored the Visitors Center and went directly to the trail.

This story was intentionally kept out of our history textbooks.

All of this to say that Durham is a distinctly art-minded community.

We went on four tours in a single day at the McMenamins Edgefield campus.

The McMenamins family brought craft brewing to Portland and established a beer culture here.

California’s Central Valley is about 450 miles long and I drove through them all.

How often do you hear about someone who is a famous bridge-builder?

When I went to school here, I hardly ever made it into the city of Boston, but when I did, it often looked like this.