Tagged: mississippi

Amtrak Gulf Coast Trains from New Orleans Finally Returning—Here's the Start Date

Amtrak is at last restoring rail service between New Orleans and Mobile, Alabama—almost 20 years after suspending service between the two cities when Hurricane Katrina devastated the…

Amtrak Gulf Coast Train to Restore Service (Finally!) Between New Orleans and Mobile

Amtrak rail service between New Orleans and Mobile, Alabama, has been suspended since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in 2005. A long-in-the-works project to bring Amtrak trains…

We’re in Danger of Losing These Historic American Places

The islands in Boston Harbor, 19th-century railway tunnels in California's mountains, a Navajo trading post in Utah, and several important remnants of the Jim Crow era are among the…

A Much-Needed New Hotel Opens on the Mississippi Blues Trail

This past summer, The Cotton House in Cleveland, Mississippi, opened as a major boutique-style hotel in the Mississippi Delta, a part of the country that hasn’t usually been strongly…

U.S. Civil Rights Trail Links Dozens of Historic Sites in 14 States

Fourteen states, covering a chunk of the U.S. from Delaware to Kansas, are joining together to promote tourism to more than 100 landmarks crucial to the struggle for civil rights.The…

Two New Biographies Are Indispensable for Trips Through Europe or America

Hundreds of thousands of Americans are currently purchasing and avidly reading two monumental biographies in book form about two monumental figures in world and American history. In…

Two Brand New Museums Dedicated to Mississippi History

Side-by-side history museums in Mississippi's capital city, Jackson, will open to the public on December 9—one day before the state's bicentennial.The brand-new institutions share an…

How to Have the Best Day Ever in Jackson, Mississippi

It is easy to breeze right by Mississippi's sleepy capital city—many do, treating it as little more than a stop off on the way to some place more iconic, more exciting. New Orleans,…

Mississippi River Towns Plan Events for Annual Bald Eagle Migration

Spotting a bald eagle along the Mississippi River—what could possibly be more all-American than that? Maybe eating a triple cheeseburger while attending a NASCAR race with the ghost…

The Recent Anti-Gay Action of the Legislatures of Mississippi and North Carolina Has Become a Travel Issue

Once, several years ago, I had occasion to meet the troubled daughter of a friend of my wife. I use the word "troubled" advisedly. She appeared anxious and often distraught, she…

Top 10 Holiday Air Travel Woes

The season of turkey, snow, and mistletoe is also the season of weather delays, gridlocked security checkpoints, and overbooked flights. Even the most experienced travelers won't be…

The Able Traveler: Wheeling Around the Big House

Nothing can ruin a vacation faster than spending time in jail. That said, there are a few former lock-ups that are worth a vacation time visit. And although these historic prisons…

What's New: An Online Update for Frommer's Sweden

Stockholm In existence since 1874, the posh Grand Hotel (S. Blasiehomshamnen 8; tel. 08/679-35-00; www.grandhotel.se) has just completed a series of upgrades. Located in the heart of…

Park of the Week: See Sea Swells at the Cape Cod National Seashore

"A man may stand there and put all America behind him," said Henry David Thoreau, and if that means forgetting daily worries and just contemplating the mystery of the Atlantic, he's…