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On Sept. 8, 1565, the Spanish conquistador Pedro Menéndez de Avilés and 800 Spanish settlers founded San Agustín (St. Augustine) in Spain’s La Florida colony, the latter meaning in Spanish “the flowery” or “land of flowers.” Perhaps with a colonial viewpoint toward religious conversion, Menéndez invited the Indigenous Timucua people, who had lived in the area for half a mille...

A lifelong Delawarean, Tina Madanat has spent the last 17 years at the Delaware Tourism Office helping others discover the magic of her home state. As sales director and group tour leader, she enjoys building personal relationships with group travel planners to help them create special, customized experiences. “For me, it’s all about providing a friendly, personal touch and w...

The names are like a Mount Rushmore of 19th-century American literature: Thoreau, Alcott, Hawthorne, and Emerson. All four of these legendary authors—among others—spent part of their lives in Concord, and they’re the reason this small community in Greater Boston is known as a

On May 19, 1883, legendary showman William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody staged the first edition of his Wild West show in Omaha, Nebraska. “Buffalo Bill’s Wild West” was not the first production of its kind; Cody himself had been staging depictions of frontier life for at least a decade, but he used that experience and natural sense of showmanship to mount a production unlike anyth...

Incorporating literary history destinations into an itinerary might seem like a challenge. Not everyone is a big reader, and those who are will likely not have very much crossover with each other when it comes to favored authors and genres. But, maybe we’re focusing a bit too much on the “literary” part instead of the “history” part.

Literary history destinations wi...