Dennis Lennox

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  Mar 20, 2022

  Postcard from Meersburg

  Meersburg, Germany is one of those picture-perfect Old World towns. Everything here really owes its existence to the Reformation — particularly influential Swiss reformer Huldrych Zwingli — as the politics of the time drove the Roman Catholic prince-bishop of Constance, Hugo von Hohenlandenberg, from his see across the lake in 1526.

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  Mar 13, 2022

  Postcard from Corpus Christi

  The Texas coastal city of Corpus Christi probably isn’t the first place you think of when planning a trip. I was one of them. I had booked Cinnamon Shore, a Mustang Island development of vacation homes and condos inspired by the classic architecture of Key West and the Bahamas.

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  Mar 6, 2022

  3 churches with centuries of history inside

  With travel increasingly back to normal now is the time to start making plans for where to go. Consider planning a trip around any of the following three historic churches.

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  Feb 20, 2022

  Travel returns to normal as pent-up demand continues

  The travel and tourism industry is back. At least that was the message last week in Virginia Beach, Virginia, at Domestic Showcase, a major regional industry conference sponsored by the Southeast Tourism Society.

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  Feb 13, 2022

  In Sarasota, Amish snowbirds

  As with elsewhere in Florida, snowbirds are a regular sight here. But intermixed with the more stereotypical visitors to Sarasota, a city and county on the Gulf of Mexico coast in southwest Florida, is a large community of Amish.

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  Feb 6, 2022

  Postcard from Paris: An ancient church restored

  One of the landmarks in the upscale Saint Germain des Prés neighborhood on the Left Bank of the River Seine is the eponymous church with its Romanesque and Gothic architecture. Founded by King Childebert in 543 and later dedicated to St. Germain, the present-day Church of Saint Germain des Prés mostly dates to a rebuilding in the early 11th century before the Great Schism that resulted in the split between Rome and Constantinople.

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  Jan 30, 2022

  In San Juan, the oldest US church

  Most visitors to Puerto Rico seem unaware that the oldest church anywhere in the United States can be found on the Caribbean island territory.

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  Jan 23, 2022

  Puerto Rico is back after years of challenges

  While the U.S. island territory did manage to recover its hospitality and tourism industry, nobody knew that recovery would be short-lived.

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  Jan 16, 2022

  Postcard from Paris: An overlooked and forgotten national hero

  Largely overlooked in Paris, a city full of landmarks and other sights popular with tourists, is the grave of the Marquis de Lafayette.

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  Dec 19, 2021

  Postcard from Beaumont

  If Beaumont is known at all, it’s known for its contribution to the Texas oil boom during the first half of the last century.