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EASTER ISLAND - In the middle of nowhere in the Pacific Ocean, 2,300 miles from South America and 2,500 miles from Tahiti, sits a small island possessing more stone statues than trees.

Pardon me, boy, there really is a Chattanooga Choo Choo. I’m gazing at it, at least a segment of it, from my window of the B. Allan Casey, Jr. parlor car, now officially known as Room 761 in what is a hotel on rails.

Berea celebrates crafts
and quilts in July

Hermitage only five-diamond hotel in top 10

June is a great time to view the summer Milky Way. And without the intrusion of city lights, Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area is a primo spot to stargaze.

NEW YORK - Eileen Ogintz, a syndicated columnist and creator of the Web site TakingtheKids.com, has traveled widely with her kids, now 17, 22 and 24. Here are some of her tips for keeping big kids happy on vacation:

Cold Mountain Heritage Tour next weekend The Bethel Rural Community Organization will present the fifth annual Cold Mountain Heritage Tour, which includes 10 historic sites…

We had spent so much time looking up at buildings that I didn’t think to look down. But my tour guide was pointing at cobblestones. Wooden ones. There beneath our feet, what looked like bricks were clearly cross sections of once tar-coated wood on a little alley near downtown Cincinnati where I had walked before but never really noticed.

CINCINNATI - Even MTV cameras love some of the spots on this city’s architecture tours. Fans of MTV’s new reality series "Taking the Stage," set at the acclaimed School for the Creative and Performing Arts, will recognize the stately school with the massive stained-glass windows as the home of what’s equivalent to the modern-day "Fame."