by Hank Nuwer | Apr 6, 2025 | Hank Nuwer Autobiography, Travel Reviews
Near Darke By Hank Nuwer When Gosia and I moved to Union City, Ind., we stopped by an antique and nostalgia store on 236 N. Columbia Street, Union City, Indiana. The building over time served many owners. It hosted a civic club, dry cleaners, a vacuum cleaner store, a...
by Hank Nuwer | Sep 28, 2024 | Alaska Tales, Travel Reviews
Weekend traveling all over Alaska by plane or car brings excitement and pleasure to my wife Gosia and me. Last weekend, we drove to the IGA Food Cache’s European section in Delta Juntion to stock up on the goodies Gosia enjoyed growing up in her native Warsaw. We...
by Hank Nuwer | Aug 22, 2024 | Alaska Tales, Travel Reviews
For my wife Malgorzata’s recent birthday, I bought a floral bouquet and, trying to be creative, a black-and-tan Louie’s Lunch Bucket from Duluth Trading Company ($89.95) to take to work. The bucket proved big enough to hold a six pack of soda pop,...
by Hank Nuwer | Dec 8, 2023 | Hank Nuwer Indiana & Ohio Stories, Travel Reviews
by Hank Nuwer Once upon a time, every hamlet in the American Midwest had an Elm Street. But around 1930, a blight came overseas from its origins in the Netherlands. Similar invasions of shade trees also destroyed that king of the forest, the American chestnut... by Hank Nuwer | Sep 1, 2023 | Alaska Tales, Travel Reviews
Many years ago, on assignment for the AARP, Country Gentleman and Outside magazines, I stayed at more than a dozen century-old hotels in the American West. Some like the Copper Queen in Bisbee, Arizona, were under renovation at the time, but their lobbies and dining... by Hank Nuwer | Jan 1, 2023 | Travel Reviews
This New Year’s morning, Gosia and I stopped for coffee and a donut just outside the Manchester (NH) airport. I left my jacket behind when we departed. I realized it at the American Airlines check-in station. Supervisor Valerie said she was getting off shift at...
