by Papi | Oct 13, 2025 | Harrisburg, PA, USA
Greetings Family and Friends, The bloodiest war that the United States has been involved in was the American Civil War with an estimated 750,000 deaths. During that war was also the bloodiest battle that the United States has been involved in – the Battle of...
by Papi | Oct 10, 2025 | Albany, NY, USA
Greetings Family and Friends, The National Pastime, as baseball is referred to even to this day, has its Hall of Fame in a quite rural setting, Cooperstown, New York, which is quite fitting given its origins were from a time when the United States was a much more...
by Papi | Oct 7, 2025 | Buffalo, NY, USA
Greetings Family and Friends, The waterworks would be the breathtaking Niagara Falls. Found roughly a half hour north of Buffalo, New York, the falls provide a spectacular power surge to the water streaming from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario. In Buffalo itself, resides...
by Papi | Oct 5, 2025 | Cleveland, OH, USA
Greetings Family and Friends, When in Cleveland, Ohio, one can easily visit not just one, but two Hall of Fames. In Cleveland itself, down on the waterfront, is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, while an hour south in Canton, Ohio is the Pro Football Hall of Fame. And...
by Papi | Oct 3, 2025 | Toledo, OH, USA
Greetings Family and Friends, Toledo, Ohio is home to the National Museum of the Great Lakes. The museum has a fine collection of exhibits related to the Great Lakes and, of course, the major economic activity of shipping on the lakes. In addition, two museum ships...
by Papi | Oct 1, 2025 | Bay City, MI, USA
Greetings Family and Friends, Nowadays, just a bit up the Saginaw River off of Saginaw Bay on Lake Huron in Bay City, Michigan resides the “Grey Ghost of the Vietnamese Coast”. The USS Edson (DD-946) is a Forrest Sherman class destroyer of Vietnam War vintage. The...
