Brown v. Board site to mark anniversary of ruling

The Brown v. Board of Education National Historic site will display a black doll used in a series of famous race studies to mark the 59th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that ended legal segregation in public schools.

Hiking with babies and tots: Trail options grow

Debbie Frazier wants her two children to grow up appreciating the outdoors. So she introduced them to hiking before they could walk.

Her favorite travel companion: Mom

When I was young, I learned a lot about travel from my mother. She taught me how and what to pack. She taught me to keep a travel diary to record my memories. And most importantly, she taught me how to power-sightsee.

Rift repaired, Little League honors founder Stotz

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. | The decades-long rift that separated Little League Baseball's founder from his beloved program once seemed as wide as the distance from home plate to straightaway center field.

Rift repaired, Little League honors founder Stotz

Little League International president Stephen Keener speaks at a news conference at the Little League museum in South Williamsport, Pa. Little League announced that the family of program founder Carl Stotz loaned artifacts to display at an exhibit, including the home plate used in the first …

Rift repaired, Little League honors founder Stotz

the home plate used in the first Little League in 1939 is shown on display at the Little League museum in South Williamsport, Pa. Little League has announced that the family of program founder Carl Stotz loaned artifacts to show at a new exhibit.

Rift repaired, Little League honors founder Stotz

Karen Stotz Myers, the daughter of Little League Baseball founder Carl Stotz, poses in front of a picture at a new exhibit at the Little League museum in South Williamsport, Pa. Kneeling on the ground in the image, to Stotz Myers' right, is her father in a picture taken when he was a boy pla…

Even urbanites can navigate a park like Yosemite

The vista of Yosemite Valley stunned me: a majestic waterfall, soaring granite, and a winding river flowing through an endless stretch of pine trees.

Saplings from Anne Frank's tree take root in US

Saplings from the chestnut tree that stood as a symbol of hope for Anne Frank as she hid from the Nazis for two years in Amsterdam are being distributed to 11 locations in the United States as part of a project that aims to preserve her legacy and promote tolerance.

Steroids fallout: No BB Hall for Bonds, Clemens, Sosa

NEW YORK | No one was elected to the Hall of Fame this year. When voters closed the doors to Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Sammy Sosa, they also shut out everybody else.

Sammy Sosa

Former Cub Sammy Sosa received 12.5 percent of the vote in Hall of Fame balloting, far short of the 75 percent needed for induction.

Closing up the house for the holidays: a checklist

The flights have been booked, the suitcases retrieved from the attic and your vacation itinerary has been set. But while your mind may be ready to wander to a faraway land, don't forget about home sweet home just yet.

Hotel puts luxury twist on mushroom-hunting trips

Guide Larry Evans discusses a mushroom found during a mountain excursion organized by Four Seasons Resort Vail in Vail, Colo. For $200 a person, the Four Seasons Resort Vail is sending out guided expeditions in luxury SUVs to look for mushrooms. The Mushrooms & Mercedes program includes …

Hotel puts luxury twist on mushroom-hunting trips

For $200 a person, the Four Seasons Resort Vail provides guided expeditions in luxury SUVs to look for mushrooms.

Visitors come to Mount Airy looking for Mayberry

People gather around a statue of Andy and Opie Taylor, characters from 'The Andy Griffith Show,' at the Andy Griffith Playhouse in Mount Airy, N.C., Tourism in Mount Airy is up since Andy Griffith died July 3, with about 10,400 people visiting the Andy Griffith Museum in July, almost double …

Visitors come to Mount Airy looking for Mayberry

Melvin Miles and D.C. Rawley, right, chat outside Wally's Service, a replica from the Andy Griffith Show, in Mount Airy, N.C. Tourism in Mount Airy is up since Andy Griffith died July 3, with about 10,400 people visiting the Andy Griffith Museum in July, almost double the 5,400 who visited i…

Visitors come to Mount Airy looking for Mayberry

Mike and Terry Jones sit outside Wally's Service, a replica of the Andy Griffith Show, in Mount Airy, N.C.

Visitors come to Mount Airy looking for Mayberry

This December 2009 photo supplied by the Surry Arts Council shows an exhibit at the Andy Griffith Museum in Mount Airy, N.C., of keys to the jail from 'The Andy Griffith Show.'

Visitors come to Mount Airy looking for Mayberry

A bouquet of flowers lare shown at the foot of a statue of Andy Griffith at Pullen Park in Raleigh, N.C. Tourism in Mount Airy is up since Andy Griffith died July 3, with about 10,400 people visiting the Andy Griffith Museum in July, almost double the 5,400 who visited in July 2011.

Visitors come to Mount Airy looking for the simpler times of a fictional town called Mayberry

In the town of Mayberry from "The Andy Griffith Show," a small-town sheriff and his trusty deputy always outwitted big-city crooks, and problems never got much bigger than a trigger-happy kid with a slingshot.