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North to Canada for Icewine - Lynn Freehill-Maye

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North to Canada for Icewine. January 26, 2015. The world’s coldest, darkest harvest is time to celebrate how hardy our winter selves can be. Last weekend, we grabbed the chance to do that with friends at the Niagara Icewine Festival. Until I moved 10 minutes from the Canadian border, I didn’t know either. Now I’ve tried this chilly wine-nectar. I’d call it the north’s (unfortified) answer to port. It can be served with dessert, but cheese or other savories cut the sweetness. We’d roast fist-sized h...

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A Wacky-Fun Game on Cape Cod - Lynn Freehill-Maye

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A Wacky-Fun Game on Cape Cod. August 21, 2014. A century and a half ago, Henry David Thoreau found Cape Cod to be a hardy outpost. In his view, it locked residents in a grim existential battle with the ocean. (To be fair, the first thing Thoreau saw when he reached the “bare and bending arm of Massachusetts” were bodies being recovered from a shipwreck.). Today it’s been tamed into a classic American pleasure park of beaches and little family joys. 8230;kind of a dying art.”. First surprise: the balls we...

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Discovering South African Nature at Cape Point - Lynn Freehill-Maye

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Discovering South African Nature at Cape Point. July 9, 2014. No, it’s not actually where the Atlantic and Indian oceans meet. But as we recently discovered, the Cape of Good Hope peninsula tip offers a surprising intro to South Africa’s unique ecosystem. Chacma baboons grouped up as we parked at the Cape Point Nature Reserve. An hour outside Cape Town. Having these long-faced monkeys. As we walked across rock and sand, past a lake and along the coast, Linda pointed out all kinds of other natural surpris...

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Learning to Like Mead in Columbus - Lynn Freehill-Maye

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Learning to Like Mead in Columbus. March 30, 2015. Set in a former Columbus car mechanic’s shop, Brothers. Has all the vats and tanks that a microbrewery would. But there’s something different here: The floor is sticky, and the air smells sweet. This is actually one of the Midwest’s best meaderies. Brothers. Or honey wine, said to be the world’s oldest alcoholic drink. We recently toured Brothers Drake, situated in Columbus’ artsy, energetic Short North district. But at Brothers Drake, I got a surprise&#...

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Hello, Buffalo! - Lynn Freehill-Maye

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August 25, 2014. As someone who studied in Des Moines, recently lived in South Bend and loved both I don’t mind my cities underrated. Which works out nicely, because we’re moving to Buffalo! Husband Matt landed a great job at a venerable bank, and off we go. Visitors take note: it’s only 15 minutes from Niagara Falls and an hour from Toronto. Slightly farther afield are the Finger Lakes winelands and the city of Montreal. Travel stories on all are definitely to come. Are our favorites so far. Yesterday w...

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Chautauqua, America's Most All-American Summer - Lynn Freehill-Maye

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Chautauqua, America’s Most All-American Summer. July 6, 2015. Strolling into the village of Chautauqua for the Fourth of July weekend, we came upon a path of flags, bows, and red petunias leading toward someone’s front porch. They paraded to a lit-up Santa dressed like a jolly Uncle Sam. “This is the most Americana place I’ve ever been,” explained our friend Sarah, whose folks were hosting us at their Chautauqua summer home. I laughed. “I’m not joking,” she said. As a national movement, Chautauqua’...

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What's So Special About the Seychelles - Lynn Freehill-Maye

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What’s So Special About the Seychelles. August 15, 2014. We were ricocheting around twisty island roads before we could even get the SUV doors shut. “Okay, we go! 8217; Alrick, our guide, called out as he cranked the wheel around. He had just eight hours last week to show us the natural wonders of Mahé, the main island of the Seychelles. He’d brake fast, climb out, and leave the car in the road, even on a curve. “You must see this! And birds had spread the seeds around. We never once encountered another ...

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Could Yak Become the Next Bison? - Lynn Freehill-Maye

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Could Yak Become the Next Bison? June 25, 2014. Yak and baby. Courtesy the International Yak Association. What’s shaggier than a horse, smarter than a cow, as lean as bison, and smoother-tasting than elk? I learned the answer recently through my local co-op: yak. Yes, the hardy ox-like animal we all associate with Mongolia. Yak are native to the Tibetan plateau, and here their meat was available in northern Indiana. Too Deputy travel editor Amanda Glazebrook had run across local yak on a restaurant menu.

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Lynn graduated magna cum laude from Drake University’s top-ranking School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Before becoming an independent writer, she worked as the tourism and environment reporter at the Pulitzer Prize-winning. Virgin Islands Daily News. And as editor of the University of Texas’ 200,000-reader alumni magazine,. Subscribe to Blog via Email. Marathon, A Lower-Key Florida Key. Mid-Illinois Via David Foster Wallace. Not Your Grandmother’s Galena. Low-Key High-Rolling in Las Vegas.

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Chicago's Fresh Museum Surprises - Lynn Freehill-Maye

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Chicago’s Fresh Museum Surprises. December 11, 2014. The Museum of Science and Industry at Christmastime. Growing up 100 miles south of Chicago, we often visited its famous museums. For my 8th grade field trip, I remember group-trekking through the Museum of Science and Industry. The exhibits were interesting, if not gripping. But boy, things have changed! A recent visit to Science and Industry’s rare captured German U-boat from World War II. Just when I was wondering, “What happened in there? The rest o...