Today is the final day of the first annual Earth, Wine, Food Festival benefiting the Marble Charter School. Activities for the whole family and live music will be taking place from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. on the grounds of the Redstone Castle.

Museum of the Fur Trade is a history tour that includes a faithfully reconstructed version of James Bordeaux’s 1837 trading post, above. The fascinating collection represents nearly every object exchanged among Europeans, Americans and native North Americans. Open daily May-October ($5 adults); 308-432-3843, 6321 U.S. 20, furtrade.org.

“Burn him! Burn him!” yells a crowd that ranges from young families to seniors. All eyes are fixed on the old man, who shakes his head and moans louder. His eyes roll and his arms flail.

As a kid, I traveled around Colorado to watch various stages of the Red Zinger and Coors Bicycle classics. My best friend and I nearly came to blows at the bus stop when his favorite movie, “Kramer vs. Kramer,” beat out mine, “Breaking Away,” for the best-picture Oscar in 1979.

Tom and Sue Murphy’s dude ranch should be fully booked this time of year, their guests enjoying pastoral weeks of rafting, long horseback rides in the backcountry and evening hot springs soaks at 9,300 feet in the Rocky Mountains.

“The Caliph’s House: A Year in Casablanca” ($13, Bantam Books) initially looked like the hundreds of other personal accounts that have crossed my desk over the past couple of years. Certainly the premise is the same: The author moves his family to a foreign country, funny or awful situations ensue…

Almost every little town in New England seems to have an olde inne where Paul Revere changed horses or Abigail Adams left her spectacles.

The 19th-century German settlers who saw visions of the Rhineland in the rolling Missouri hills likely didn’t anticipate the more modern voyagers who flock to these parts:

This city on Lake Geneva with a view of snowcapped Mont Blanc is one of the world’s most expensive cities, with famous shops selling exquisite jewelry and luxury watches.

Backpackers pining for European adventure have discovered life on the farm, shoveling manure, feeding pigs and making butter as a recession-beating way to sate their wanderlust. Their ticket to an earthy taste of the Old Continent is an innovative website that connects travelers with a network of organic farms.