You can visit plenty of places where presidents were born – but only one where a president started life over again.
A large black cross scars the page for February 14 in Theodore Roosevelt’s diary for the year 1884. On that day, the young New York State legislator lost both his mother and his wife, Alice, the latter to a kidney ailment just one day after the birth of the couple’s daughter. Beneath the cross Roosevelt wrote, “The light has gone out of my life.”
Corne and Conny van Bedaf’s ambition couldn’t fit in the Netherlands. The Dutch couple wanted a larger dairy farm, but so small and densely packed a country offers little real estate for cattle. You cannot let Holsteins graze on the canals of Amsterdam, after all. They would block boat traffic.
There’s no substitute for experience. My own 20 years of experience as a guitar player allows me to quickly spot incredibly well-made guitars. Bismarck native Matt Markel’s 20 years of experience allows him to build them.
“My people were part of the great migration. I was born in the South, but I grew up in Chicago,” said Curt Bradley – the Legendary Mr. B himself, whose barbecue sauces are so good that they defy description. “Now, in Chicago there’s a barbecue joint on every corner. And that’s no big deal, because there’s nine million people living in Cook County alone.
Mermaids are real. One lives in Minnesota.
Hope McAllister had enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. Training for amphibious and expeditionary warfare is hard work, and our hero was feeling a bit burned out after waking up at 0400 hours every day. In her few free moments Hope liked to unwind while looking at photos on Instagram – particularly those of mermaids.
Two tickets to paradise. That Eddie Money oldie hummed through my mind all morning as I cheerily dressed for a Sunday brunch aboard Paradise Charter Cruises’ boat on Lake Minnetonka. The weather was cool and overcast skies threatened rain, but nothing was going to discourage me from going. After a long year of pandemic isolation and six months of cold weather, I was desperate for a good time out with my partner. This brunch cruise offered a perfect launchpad back into life – an affordable luxury just a few minutes from home. It turns out I need not have worried at all. Perfect weather is not required for a pleasant time on a Paradise cruise.