Bemusement park: Where Dickens meets Disney
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Can the kids put down their iPods to relive Pip's hardships - in grim and smelly fashion?
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Reader Winnie Abraham shares her picture with us.
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Disney teams up with Nintendo for a globally interactive experience.
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By KELLEY BOUCHARD Staff Writer  Portland's historic Eastern Cemetery isn't the first place you'd think to go read a book, take a stroll or have a picnic under a flowering crab apple tree.  With good reason.
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By Deborah Williams  It could be a movie set: a perfect milelong white sand beach, breathtaking sunsets, a fish filled lake, an old-fashioned amusement park, lakeside dining establishments, a 121-year-old beachfront chapel and the bustling Erie Canal.
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Anxious about dwindling crowds and shorter attention spans, museums and historical sites are turning to special effects to tell their stories
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By ED SEALOVER THE GAZETTE  North Cheyenne Caon Park has long been considered one of the jewels of Colorado Springs' urban forest, an oak-and-pine playground for hikers, bikers and nature lovers.
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AN AMAZING wildlife spectacle is taking place in the heart of a northern city, wildlife experts announced yesterday.   A family of peregrines has made its home high above Manchester's streets, according to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
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The Disney hit âHigh School Musicalâ is bound for London.
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Michael Cox's book has the ornate, curlicued linguistic niceties of a Dickensian period piece.
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1. "The Grim Grotto" by Lemony Snicket
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By David Nivens, High Point Enterprise, N.C.  Feb.
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"North River" (Little, Brown and Company, 352 pages, $25.99) &#151; Pete Hamill: The streets of old New York are getting mighty crowded with fictional characters. Contemporary authors seem more apt then ever to dip into the city's rich past to tell their tales. Among the few who stand out are E.L. Doctorow, Kevin Baker, Caleb Carr, Thomas Kelly &#151; and Pete Hamill.
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By CATHERINE KOZAK  By Catherine Kozak  The Virginian-Pilot  ROANOKE ISLAND  Lush, fragrant and mysterious may best describe the charms of the Fort Raleigh National Historic Site , a wooded park with imprecise historical relevance and a nonexistent fort.
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By Valerie Lovett, The News Herald, Panama City, Fla.  Mar.
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A little serendipity can take you places, including where you want to go.
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The New York Public Library's handsome show of Jewish history includes unusual materials from disparate places with finely detailed, often playful commentary.