Author: Ms. R.

This small museum in a Columbus suburb is a special place for historians and trappers that aims to preserve the heritage and history of trapping. It is the work of Tom Parr, Sr. an unassuming and very friendly older gentleman who is very involved in the North American Trappers Historical Society. Parr operates the Trapper’s World magazine and is very active in the trapper community, where he shares his wealth of knowledge about the history of the trade. Like Theodore……

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At the turn of the 20th century, Philadelphia‘s elite built summer homes along the Main Line of the Philadelphia Railroad to escape the city heat. While many of these homes still stand in public and private use, the Chanticleer Estate has a unique second-life as a horticultural hotspot for the region. The original owners of the Chanticleer estate were Adolph Rosengarten Sr. and his wife, Christine Penrose. Rosengarten owned a prosperous pharmaceutical company that would later merge with Merck……

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Casa Tíbet (Tibet House), located in Mexico City, is one of the country’s main Buddhist organizations. Owing to Valle de Bravo’s location as one of the Pueblos Mágicos (Magical Towns) closest to the capital, it has become a center of spirituality for the megalopolis’s inhabitants. Asian philosophies are well represented here by Buddhist and Hindu meditation retreats, along with the “limpias” (cleansings) and sauna-like temazcales originated by the country’s Indigenous peoples. Therefore it should be no surprise that this……

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Martindale Hall is located in the Clare Valley, an area famous for its many vineyards in South Australia. It was built in 1979, in a classic Georgian style. Built out of sandstone in an Italianate style, it is an opulent mansion boasting 32 rooms. These include a billiard room and smoking room, exhibiting interesting artifacts from the previous owners’ travels around the world. The surrounding grounds used to host a racecourse, boating lake, and cricket field, where the English……

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Excerpted and adapted from Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape, by Cal Flyn. Used with permission of the publisher, Penguin Random House. In 1919, all along the Western Front, French authorities were taking stock of the devastation of World War I. From the border with Belgium at Lille to the border with Switzerland near Strasbourg, this most brutal of wars had torn a rupture through the land: It was ripped, cratered, pitted, charred by a billion……

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 On the outskirts of the Belarusian capital, covering an area of almost a hundred hectares, is the picturesque Loshitsa Manor and Park. An avenue of linden trees leads up from the gate to the charming country mansion. Overlooking a lush meadow, where the Loshitsa River merges with the Svislach, the manor offers scenic river views. Surrounded by well-tended gardens and lawns, the estate includes fruit orchards and extensive woodlands. There is also a crop of outbuildings: a gatehouse and……

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Founded by the Roman emperor Augustus around the year 41 B.C., Legion XVII of the Imperial Roman Army disappeared in the year 9 A.D. after being sent to deal with troubling tribes in Germanica. What happened to them has always been a bit of a mystery. Urban legend states they went onto Scotland after Germanica and disappeared around the area of Dunbartonshire. This urban myth has now become cemented in history thanks to popular fiction such as The Eagle……

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