Monuments to Life

Monuments to Life

Humanity is obsessed with life. The mantras of YOLO and Carpe Diem are modern reflections of the romanticism of living. While breath in the body makes you technically alive, it can be difficult to determine how to frame and fully live a life. There are thousands of...
Knowing Where You Stand

Knowing Where You Stand

I was twelve when my parents took me to Washington, DC for the first time. It was the first stop on a family vacation where we would be attending the funerals of two of my grandparents. Washington, DC, was the first major historical place any of us had visited. My...
Freedom on the Open Road

Freedom on the Open Road

For a guy like Stan Ellsworth, motorcycles rather than cars are clearly the way to travel. “In a car, you’re locked away,” he says. “You have your own environment in there; you’ve got your stereo, your air-conditioning, etc. You just took your environment out of your...
Civil War Sites

Civil War Sites

Most people believe that the United States of America was born in 1776 with the Declaration of Independence. But while that document was vital, it had yet to be truly tested with sacrifice, blood, and hope against its worst enemy—its own people. Only 150 years have...