Dennis Lennox

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  Jul 30, 2023

  Travel: Postcard from the middle of nowhere

  This has to be Montana’s best-kept secret. I’m in Fort Peck, a tiny community that owes its existence to the Army Corps of Engineers and a reservoir or man-made lake of the same name, in northeastern Montana.

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  Jul 16, 2023

  Travel: Postcard from Cleveland

  A trip last month to Cleveland reminded me of why this quintessential Rust Belt city along Ohio’s Lake Erie coast is one of my favorite places to spend a summer weekend.

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  Jul 2, 2023

  Travel: Plan a vacation around these 3 chapels

  No, you don’t need to leave the country this summer to visit a notable church. In fact, an entire family-friendly summer vacation can be planned around a visit to a notable or historically significant house of worship.

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  Jun 18, 2023

  Travel: Postcard from Fargo

  Forget what you think you know about Fargo. With its population of 125,990 souls, the largest city in North Dakota is known, assuming it’s known at all, for the 1996 movie of the same name.

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  Jun 4, 2023

  Travel: 3 places to visit right now

  With peak summer travel just around the corner, now is the time to book a getaway. Don’t worry if you have no idea where to go. The following three destinations are great places to take a summer vacation.

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  May 28, 2023

  In Poland, old churches offer lessons in medieval history

  More than a thousand years of Christianity means there are plenty of things to discover in Poland.

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  May 14, 2023

  Travel: Postcard from Kanab, Utah

  Kanab is one of the best-kept secrets anywhere in the West.

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  Apr 30, 2023

  Travel: Come for an old church, stay for the place

  With the peak travel season just around the corner, now is the time to start planning a summer getaway.

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  Apr 23, 2023

  Postcard from Cuba

  There is something about Cuba. I found myself in the capital of Havana four years after my last and only visit to the island, which has been under communist rule since the Cuban Revolution in the 1950s. The difference between then and now was very noticeable.

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  Apr 9, 2023

  Travel: In England’s Bishop Auckland, religious heritage anchors an urban renewal

  A recent trip across the pond took me to a town in northeast England that until recently didn’t have much to offer tourists. As with other towns and villages around Durham, the shire town or seat of County Durham, it reminded me of the Rust Belt back home. Basically, the places where mining and other working-class jobs that once defined entire communities no longer exist.