Tag: Towns

Umbria is a region of great historical importance. It is known for its medieval architecture. In Perugia, its capital, as well as in many towns and villages, the medieval style prevails. 2 Le Marche Le Marche is another region that carries a lot of history. Its villages and towns dat...

Our extended family greeted the news with curiosity, gentle questions, and acceptance. No one sets out to test the boundaries of familial love. Sometimes, there isn’t a choice. When you’re dangling over a cliff by a rope, you find out who is there for you, despite the blisters, despite t...

Over the past few weeks, I have been searching for the article I, since unable to find, am now sitting down to write. It is an article for others who, like me, live in small towns most come to for vacations. It is an effort at building a bridge between those of us who live in mountain towns and the ...

As a child, I was an avid reader and intensely curious. I wondered, for example, why all the land around my central Illinois hometown was so pancake flat. I wondered what the land had looked liked before the farmers came and made it an endless checkerboard of corn and soybean fields. I wondered who ...