Re-cycling on the East Coast Greenway in Florida and Georgia By Herb Hiller Can boondock trails save the vanishing South? Can cyclists on thousand-dollar bikes restore a fading way of life? Factories a century ago helped lessen rural poverty in Henry Grady’s New South. Yet, while time has tempered memories…
Athens, Georgia: Live Music, Lively City A Hip City that’s ‘Organic, Internally driven’ By Herb Hiller Athens appears like a vivid sash atop the green campus of the University of Georgia, like an art installation endowed by the university’s two-billion-dollar economic impact that turns Athens-Clarke County into a virtual city-state….
Three Southern Towns Where Trains Run Up Main Street. By Herb Hiller Americans don’t ride American trains for getting anywhere fast. Okay, maybe in the Northeast, but we surely don’t ride coach through the South expecting overnight sleep. Instead of lullabies, we get lurch-inducing railbeds. On the other hand, rewards…
Richmond VA: “10 times Better In 10 Years” By Herb Hiller Richmond sits at the crossroads of “Y’all come” and “‘S’up, bro?”, of the Old South and the New Urbanism, of big history and its splintering. The city works at reconciling its gallantry and its shame while outdistancing both by…
Apalachicola and Florida’s Not Altogether Forgotten Coast. A lightly populated section of Florida, where old traditions like oystering remain.
Connecticut’s Farmington Canal Heritage Trail is picturesque! By Herb Hiller I took the train from Florida to New York, then a commuter train took me to New Haven. My next conveyance was a bicycle, in the perfectly wonderful village of Simsbury, Connecticut. After a sleepless night on the train, I…
Herb Hiller in Kearney, Nebraska where Sandhill cranes spend six weeks en route to Canada. For bird watchers, being this close to so many cranes is huge.
