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Seeing Stars in Cincinnati; A City of Firsts & Dazzling Street Art

Cincinnati, Ohio is known for so, so much. Fiona the Hippo has been capturing the hearts of followers around the world with her life and daily antics at the Cincinnati Zoo for the past few years. The John A Roebling Suspension Bridge connecting Cincinnati to Covington inspired the Brooklyn Bridge design, and the Empire State…

November 25, 2022 in Ohio.

Seven Wonders and More in Old Fort

From Bat Cave, North Carolina, get yourself a jug of apple cider from a roadside stand and sip it all along NC-9 North and Bat Cave Road. Follow it right into Old Fort.  Old Fort is a tiny town of less than 1,000 residents located halfway between Black Mountain and Marion, and halfway between Bat…

September 1, 2022 in Appalachia, Cherokee, North Carolina.

Mainstrasse Village; Tracing German Heritage in Covington’s Old West Side

My southern Ohio birthplace is surrounded by historic German communities, schools, and other institutions. One of the coolest neighbourhoods I am personally familiar with is the Mainstrasse Village in Covington, Kentucky, just a few minutes south of Cincinnati and right across the Ohio-Kentucky state border.  Covington is a rad city in its own right, but…

January 15, 2022 in Germany, Kentucky, Ohio.

Holiday in Helen; a Slice of Alpine Georgia

Between a surgery, work, then a year and a half so far of Covid-19 forcing us to cancel our trip, I have not been able to go back to my beloved Vaterland for over three years. That ache in my heart for lederhosen and medieval architecture is sometimes unbearable. We set out instead for Helen,…

August 21, 2021 in Cherokee, Georgia, Germany.

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  • Covington’s Mutter Gottes & the Historic Linden Grove Cemetery November 18, 2022
  • Covington’s Devou Park & the Circus Town of Ludlow November 17, 2022
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