I attended the 2023 EV & Charging Expo in Toronto for work, but I also arrived early to have some fun before official work hours started. It’s an industry showcase of where changing infrastructure stands and what kinds of commercial electric vehicles are available. Everything from the (relatively) tiny Ford Read more…
Originally from Wisconsin, Frank Lloyd Wright is a renowned American architect who was commissioned to build works such as the Chicago Stock Exchange and the Transportation Building at the Chicago’s World Fair. In addition to massive buildings, he also built homes such as the Walter Davidson House and the Martin Read more…
Its not just a place for kids, it’s a place for teens and adults and babies, too. Best of all, the parking is free. It has everything from the cells in your veins to the stars in the sky. It even has a history section on the first floor. I Read more…
It’s free. I don’t care if you’re not interested in history. It’s free, so you should go. It’s next to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery so it’s not even out of the way. Go. The upstairs gallery does a great job putting American history in context of Buffalo. From wooly mammoths Read more…
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. According to the Internet, it’s a grammatically correct English sentence. It means something like buffalo bullying other buffalo something something something in Buffalo. You can look it up yourself. The waterfront area has two retired naval ships and a submarine open for Read more…
The University of Michigan’s main campus is in Ann Arbor, about an hour west of Detroit. Its fist buildings were built in Gothic revival style. It was founded in 1817, but classes didn’t begin 1841 because it wasn’t established as a modern university but more like a network of lecture Read more…
About an hour west of Detroit, Ann Arbor is most well-known for being a college town to the famous University of Michigan’s main campus. But it was also known to be an automotive industrial town in the 20th century. The red brick buildings along the former Ann Arbor Railroad tell Read more…
I had my preconceived notions of what a corporate branded museum would look like, but I was only partially right. I thought there would be a gallery on the company’s products and a PR video on the innovations it gave to the glass industry. Turns out, it’s part glass history Read more…
You can buy a combined admission ticket to both the Corning Museum of Glass and the Rockwell Museum for a discount price. The secret is to go to Rockwell first, get the combined ticket, before going across the river to Corning to avoid a timed ticket. This way, you can Read more…
Corning is famed for being the home of the glassware giant that spawned Pyrex, Corelle, and the space shuttle’s windshield. It began life as a settlement by Erastus Corning in 1835 before becoming a village 13 years later. Today, Corning is the town’s largest employer with its headquarters here. Cultural Read more…