Guest post and photos courtesy of Jamie Rhein Last spring I discovered the wonders of Frankfort, Kentucky and couldn't believe I'd missed its bounties for years. My family on both sides are Kentuckians-- from just across the Ohio River from Cincinnati to the Appalachians of southeastern Kentucky and the Bluegrass region in between. Still, Frankfort [...]
Guest post by Jamie Rhein Photographer Mitya Trotsky's exhibit, "A Supposedly Fun-Thing," at the ArtMedia Gallery in Miami has me wishing I was heading to Florida soon, and thinking about travel photography. Specifically, what it takes to get a photo of merit that evokes more than just a pretty scene. Timing is often key, like [...]
Guest post by Jamie Rhein: I am a movie junkie. In college, a friend once called me Tom from the character in the Glass Menagerie who escaped life each night by heading to a theater. I get that. Honestly, it's the pleasure of watching the craft of a wonderful movie through the lens of an [...]
Halloween decorations below the Eiffel Tower Guest post and photos by Jamie Rhein For the past two years, a friend and I have loaded our cars with teenagers to head to Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, 30 miles north of Cincinnati, for what's becoming a tradition of thrills at the amusement park's Halloween Haunt. [...]
Guest post and photos courtesy of Jamie Rhein There are some folks who find a passion and just go with it. Kenneth Pape who owns Pape's Pecan House in Seguin, Texas is one of those people. He started collecting nutcrackers in the 1950s. Since then, he's acquired more than 8,000 and showcases his bounty at [...]
The main house at Ivy Green, Helen Keller's birthplace Post by guest writer, Jamie Rhein Some historic house museums seem as if the people who once lived there just stepped out for a moment--where scenes one has read about seem to appear in each room. Ivy Green, Helen Keller's birthplace in Tuscumbia, Alabama [...]