Mae Travels

The Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, depicted above, is located on the bank of the Mississippi river on the campus of the University of ...

The real center of The Children’s Book is life at the end of the Victorian era – which sounds like too big a topic for a novel...

Our old sideboard gave us good service, but it was time for it to go: we bought a new one with a big hutch a few years ago, and shoved i...

The Old Car Festival at Greenfield Village provides a chance to see the amazing labors of many old-car hobbyists. Some preserve ol...

Frankly, I am not very interested in philosophy. It's too abstract for me. I can't even bear the philosophy blog in the New York Tim...

Our new African Mask: A "Sickness Mask"from the Congo This afternoon we walked around the sales booths for the African World ...

Today's Mona Lisa -- a leaf carved with her image. See this:   YouTube:  Did You Know :Leaf Carving China Slide Show

My collection grows rather slowly these days, but here are a few new items. The cards were for my birthday recently, as was also th...

The Tetons impress me more than any other mountains I have seen. The wide meadows and reflecting lakes at the foot of the mountain range pro...

Yellowstone is full of volcanic features, including this columnar basalt at Sheepeater Cliff (named for Shoshone Indians who raised bighorn ...

The main event at Yellowstone is geyser eruptions. Old Faithful is of course best known, as it's large and has a schedule almost like ...

Yellowstone Park's thermal activities are the best-known and most popular features of its vast landscape. Who would not be curious to se...