His murderers had every reason to believe that Emmett Till would simply vanish beneath the water like so many other ‘negros’ had. Mutilated, beaten, and shot in the head, his body was discovered bound with barbed wire to a 70-pound cotton gin fan at the bottom of the Tallahatchie River. The 14-year-old boy’s crime: allegedly flirting with a white woman. Read More…
Patrons wiz by Shakespeare to grab a seat for Julius Caesar
In Montgomery, Alabama, we found something that reminded us of the best of Manhattan. For a decade, an annual summer tradition of ours was seeing Shakespeare productions at the open-air Delacorte Theater in Central Park with our friend Charlie, who joined us in the Deep South for some play-going. Read More…
We did nothing, nothing, in Dauphin Island, Alabama. We wore ourselves out in New Orleans, and spent our days here relaxing, rejuvenating and catching up on things that we’d put off. The beaches here aren’t especially pretty, and the Gulf Coast oil rigs can be seen wherever you turn, but we didn’t care. Sometimes you just need to recharge your batteries, and this was a good place to do just that.
We don’t comment much on the campgrounds we visit because we’re really not on the road for camping. For us, the RV is just a place to stay when we’re not off exploring great destinations. In that regard, we’re no more ‘RVers’ than other travelers are ‘Hotelers.’ In each case, where you sleep at night is incidental to the reason you’re there. It is a means to an end. But occasionally we come across a campground that is truly exceptional either because it is a beautiful destination in its own right or is impossibly close to where we want it to be. Read More…
Stained glass dome above the Old State Capitol, Baton Rouge, LA
Everywhere Once 