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    Rejuvenating a hotel and town near Cooperstown

    ByEileen Ogintz June 18, 2014July 9, 2021

    A New York City expat tells his story of rejuvenating an historic hotel and plans to do the same for the tiny village of Sharon Springs, 25 miles from Cooperstown

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  • Families learn 19th Century farming in Cooperstown NY
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    Families learn 19th Century farming in Cooperstown NY

    ByEileen Ogintz June 17, 2014July 15, 2021

    At the Farmer’s Museum in Cooperstown, NY, Peg Young is making bread, fried bacon and potato balls all over an open fire. There will be rhubarb pie for desert.

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  • Generations love the game — at the Baseball Hall of Fame
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    Generations love the game — at the Baseball Hall of Fame

    ByEileen Ogintz June 16, 2014July 8, 2021

    There is a lot to read at every exhibit at the National Baseball Hall of Fame, celebrating its 75th anniversary this month. This iconic place inspires conversation with parents and grandparents

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  • Kid-friendly Costa Rican resort not typical cookie-cutter
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    Kid-friendly Costa Rican resort not typical cookie-cutter

    ByEileen Ogintz June 12, 2014July 10, 2021

    Alison Tibaldi’s recent visit to the JW Marriott Guanacaste Resort & Spa in Costa Rica was the antithesis of the cookie-cutter experience that you get at some chain hotels.

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  • Why families like ski country in the summer: 6 adventures
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    Why families like ski country in the summer: 6 adventures

    ByEileen Ogintz June 12, 2014July 17, 2021

    Ski country in summer, especially Colorado: you won’t run out of things to do. Many who live in ski towns say they originally came for the snow but stayed because they love the summer

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  • view from Glacier Point over half Dome and Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park, California, United States of America
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    Celebrate Yosemite’s 150th birthday with your family

    ByEileen Ogintz June 5, 2014July 15, 2021

    This month marks the 150th anniversary of the Yosemite Grant Act, which set aside Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove as the first protected wild land in the country — the first time scenic, wilderness lands were set aside specifically for preservation and public use by the federal government.

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  • Beaches Turks and Caicos, a Teen’s POV
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    Beaches Turks and Caicos, a Teen’s POV

    ByEileen Ogintz June 5, 2014July 17, 2021

    After a long and stressful year at college, nothing could have been more eagerly anticipated than a weekend soaking up the sun at Beaches Turks and Caicos with my mom.

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  • Beaches Turks and Caicos, a Mom’s POV
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    Beaches Turks and Caicos, a Mom’s POV

    ByEileen Ogintz June 4, 2014July 17, 2021

    Correspondent Alison Tibaldi recently visited Beaches Turks and Caicos with her teenage daughter, Madeleine. They had never experienced a Mother-Daughter vacation, and the timing was right.

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  • Bringing out the inner child in Turks & Caicos
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    Bringing out the inner child in Turks & Caicos

    ByEileen Ogintz June 3, 2014July 10, 2021

    In the days of being connected 24-7, there is a place where adults can unplug, unwind and become a kid again.

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  • Immigrant history on Manhattan’s Lower East Side
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    Immigrant history on Manhattan’s Lower East Side

    ByEileen Ogintz June 2, 2014July 6, 2021

    The Tenement Museum is the place to learn about the history not only of this neighborhood, but of the pivotal role it has played in New York City’s immigrant history—and continues to play

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