National Civil War Re-enactment to bring 12,000 reenactors to Gettysburg
May 18, 2013 – 10:24 am | No Comment

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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania –  This summer’s 150th Gettysburg Anniversary National Civil War Battle Reenactment, July 4-7, is poised to be one of the highlights on a large menu of events in Gettysburg during 2013.
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National Civil War Re-enactment to bring 12,000 reenactors to Gettysburg
May 18, 2013 – 10:24 am | No Comment
National Civil War Re-enactment to bring 12,000 reenactors to Gettysburg

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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania –  This summer’s 150th Gettysburg Anniversary National Civil War Battle Reenactment, July 4-7, is poised to be one of the highlights on a large menu of events in Gettysburg during 2013.
This event is …

Museum to Macabre Illustrator Edward Gorey Opens
April 14, 2013 – 2:55 pm | No Comment
Museum to Macabre Illustrator Edward Gorey Opens

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Award-winning book writer and illustrator Edward Gorey has a museum. Rumor has it, he probably wouldn’t have loved the idea of his home being turned into a museum after his death in 2000, but thankfully …

Investigating the Sherlock Holmes Museum in London
January 9, 2013 – 8:22 pm | No Comment
Investigating the Sherlock Holmes Museum in London

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Guest post by Matt Herbert
There’s no crime fiction series more popular than Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. From the four books and 56 short stories to the dozens of movies and television adaptions to …

Sleepy Hollow: The Legend Lives
October 8, 2012 – 1:12 pm | One Comment
Sleepy Hollow: The Legend Lives

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Where better to spend an October evening than in Sleepy Hollow, the home to Washington Irving’s famous headless horseman?
Irving described the valley of Sleepy Hollow as one filled with spirits and where a “drowsy, dreamy …

Loving Frank: The Taliesin and Frank Lloyd Wright
September 16, 2012 – 7:39 pm | No Comment
Loving Frank: The Taliesin and Frank Lloyd Wright

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Frank Lloyd Wright’s work is sought out by architecture buffs on a regular basis, but in the last five years fiction readers are seeking out his life’s work, too.
Nancy Horan’s book, Loving Frank, was published …

In the Footsteps of C.S. Lewis: A guest post by Will Vaus
August 26, 2012 – 9:01 am | No Comment
In the Footsteps of C.S. Lewis: A guest post by Will Vaus

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As the author of four books about C. S. Lewis and his works, I am often asked for advice about touring the sites in Ireland and England related to this twentieth century author of The …

Five Cities with Book Tours
March 11, 2012 – 4:28 pm | No Comment
Five Cities with Book Tours

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Everyone loves a book where the setting is as important as the characters. The Help wouldn’t have been the same if it weren’t in Jackson, Mississippi. The Firm just had to be in Memphis to …

Stephen King Tours in Bangor, Maine
June 8, 2011 – 4:07 pm | No Comment
Stephen King Tours in Bangor, Maine

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Stephen King fan? So are the folks at the Bangor, Maine, Convention and Vistors Bureau. They’ve created a tour based on the wildly popular King book, Tommyknockers. This tour is based on similarities between the …