Spring in Sonoma County – after winter rains, hills are velvety green, flowering trees and flowers wave in the breeze, hello baby goats and lambs!
Here’s our guide to picnics, hikes, bike rides, and best family events – Petaluma Butter & Egg Parade and Sonoma Farm Trails.
Know before you go to US national parks this summer – firings of national park workers will significantly affect your experience. Tips for road conditions, wildlife and fire saftey, weather, especially extreme heat, plus information about specific national parks.
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New and favorite stories of dedication, creativity and dreams of exceptional African Americans, discrimination in daily life, dark days of enslaved Black people, and a fierce optimism to not only survive, but thrive.
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Here’s to John Muir for a timeless legacy of wilderness for future generations and creation of national parks, and Teddy Roosevelt, who used his presidency to create federal protection for public lands, national monuments, cultural heritage sites. Plus children’s books about national parks, and need for conservation today.
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The Uffizi Museum (Galleria degli Uffizi) in Florence has a magnificent collection of Italian painting and sculpture. Here’s tips for families visiting the Uffizi, and some favorite artworks to see – paintings by Botticelli and Leonardo da Vinci, portraits of Medici children, angels, battles, and coats of arms.
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Pompeii, Oplontis and Herculaneum were destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. These buried cities were forgotten for more than a thousand years. Years of excavation reveal the ancient Roman people and cities, which kids can see on a trip to Campania in Italy.
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