Travel: Postcard from St. George
Name notwithstanding, the fast-growing Utah city of St. George wasn’t named for the saint depicted in religious art as slaying a dragon.
Dennis Lennox
CP Contributor
At these colleges, the chapels stand out
Three colleges have chapels that stand out as superb examples of church architecture. Perhaps what’s most remarkable is the fact that all are relatively new with the oldest dating to the 1960s.
Travel: Postcard from Houston
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the country’s fourth-largest city has plenty to offer visitors.
Travel: Postcard from Daytona Beach
When most people say or think of Daytona Beach, they mean the beach itself and not the city of the same name.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
