Let me give you a very quick and unsolicited piece of advice:  People from Idaho do not want to hear your f*****g potato jokes. I found this out the hard way, which is why I’m trying to pay it forward and let you know that [Read more…]

Lewis Ogden O’Brien had just turned 12 in the spring of 1885, when he scribbled out a short note, jammed it inside a bottle, and hid it inside an air vent at his family’s new winter estate in Florida. The oldest of three, Lewis would [Read more…]

History is written in the architecture all over St. Augustine. From coquina walkways to gilded arches, each structure carries with it not only a unique design, but a unique story. High on the dunes of Crescent Beach, just a few hundred yards north of State [Read more…]

It’s ten-thirty in the morning and I’m standing in the darkness of a cave somewhere in the middle of the Tennessee wilderness. A young tour guide with a buttery Southern accent is rattling off some history tidbits when I hear it. One of the most [Read more…]