Annette on the Road

Little Houses on the Prairie

ANNETTE ON THE ROAD A Shrinking American Dream in Nebraska: What the Homestead Act Was About, and How it Continues to Shape How We Live and Think

Dec 17 •

Civilization in Ruins? Romans Speak!

ANNETTE ON THE ROAD Real People Hide Under Rocks In the Hills

Dec 10 •

Making Great Exhibitions of Themselves

ANNETTE ON THE ROAD/THROWBACK Maybe we're harder to impress with spectacles in 2024 than people were in 1851. Maybe not. PLUS NBH Gifts!

Dec 3 •

Reading -- The Room

ANNETTE ON THE ROAD Legendary place of reading and thinking, plus Annette's uniquely grumpy takes on the British Museum and London

Nov 19 •

The Ministry of Truth

ANNETTE ON THE ROAD On my way to the former home of competing truths in London, I stop by this chilling place

Nov 16 •

Historic Buildings of Kent

ANNETTE ON THE ROAD It's Saturday. It Must Be Canterbury.

Nov 11 •

Multi-Python Castle (with a real past)

ANNETTE ON THE ROAD: Better Leave Doune Castle Before I Taunt You a Second Time

Oct 29 •

Reading the Abbey

ANNETTE ON THE ROAD English abbeys start to look alike . . . Until we look closer, and read a bit

Oct 22 •

ANNETTE ON THE ROAD A "Natural" Disaster That Killed a Town, plus Annette gets irritated by a museum

Oct 15 •

ANNETTE ON THE ROAD A Weird Century-Old Silent Movie That Still Speaks

Oct 8 •

Recovery (3) 21st Century Glendale

More than 140 years later, tour sites of an extraordinary Land Back movement

Sep 28 •

Logs and Mortar of the New Deal

ANNETTE ON THE ROAD/THROWBACK Pandemic Time Out In a Hotel Built By Desperately Poor Lads a Lifetime Ago,

Aug 17 •

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