Whenever driving across sections of the country, I've always been fascinated to think of how the early settlers, explorers, adventurers,...

One cannot read colonial-era stories for long without finding mention of the longhunters—or long hunters, depending upon the writer. But ju...

Travel during colonial times was notoriously slow and arduous. I've written before about the Great Wagon Road stretching from Philad...

Earlier this month I attended the 35th Fair at New Boston , a huge reenactment held at George Rogers State Park in Springfield, Ohio. A c...