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  • Spring in the botanical gardens (Photos)

     A fantastic day trip you should consider marking on your calendar four times a year would be to visit the State Botanical Gardens of Georgia.  Visiting each season becomes a completely different experience.  The view is different...

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  • Riverfront Trail in Washington, Missouri

    Washington Riverfront Trail is a hidden gem

    Imagine pedaling down a smooth, flat, paved trail surrounded by a canopy of tall sycamore, pine, oak and other varieties of trees. Then suddenly you exit into a field of natural prairie grass for a few yards and then back...

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  • Syndicate Silkscreen

    Syndicate Bellingham

    While a plethora of silk screening companies exist, there’s one here in Bellingham that’s just a bit different. “We love to see personal passions and enthusiasms explode into action”, says Kevin Chanik, owner of...

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  • Mote Run for the Turtles

    Mote's 27th run is a win for sea turtles

    Nearly 1,000 runners and walkers hit the beach to help endangered and threatened sea turtles during Mote’s 27th Run for the Turtles on Saturday, April 6, on Siesta Public Beach.The Run, which includes a 5K sanctioned...

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  • cole bros circus elephant

    Cole Bros Circus stops in coastal Georgia on its 2013 tour

    The Cole Bros. Circus is the largest tented circus under the Big Top still traveling the country. It's been doing so for over 120 years. This year it made its annual stopover in Brunswick, Georgia where it performed...

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  • Wine, Sprits, and Culinary Celebration

    Patrons party the night away at the MODS Wine, Spirits and Culinary Celebration

    The Museum of Discovery and Science hosted its 18th Annual Wine, Spirits and Culinary Celebration on Friday, April 5, 2013. Visitors who paid from $150 for VIP admission to as little as $75 for general admission access were able...

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  • Sunsets on Clearwater Beach (Photos)

    Clearwater Beach has beautiful sunsets. Even if it isn't perfectly clear, the colors reflecting off the clouds will make most people stop and watch the day end. Do you have a favorite spot to watch the sunset on...

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  • Actor Billy Dee Williams

    Billy Dee Williams is scheduled to appear at Star Wars Weekends (Photos)

    Walt Disney World has announced that actor Billy Dee Williams is scheduled to appear at Star Wars Weekends at Disney's Hollywood Studios. Williams portrayed smuggler turned city administrator Lando Calrissian in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes...

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  • Bryce Canyon National Park entrance sign

    Explore beautiful Bryce Canyon (Photos)

    The drive from to Utah’s Bryce Canyon National Park takes only about six hours, but the landscape that greets arriving visitors is dramatically different from home.Bryce Canyon is so filled with colorful, fantastic and surprising views that...

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  • Star Wars Weekends

    A Kids Guide to Star Wars Weekends

    If anyone in your house, small or large, has ever donned a light saber, said the word "Jedi" or threatened to join The Galactic Empire you need to experience Star Wars Weekends. Each year "a galaxy...

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