Frances Folsom

Fran Folsom is a travel journalist whose work has taken her to many places in the United States, Northern Ireland, and Eastern Europe, Germany and most recently to Israel. Her articles have appeared in the Boston Globe, Dallas Morning News, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Antiques and Fine Art magazine, Art New England, Recreation News, Hagerstown magazine, At Home Memphis and Mid-South and many other publications. When not on the road she lives in Cambridge MA with her dog Little Gunny and her giant black cat Stella.

Mardi Gras in Lake Charles Louisiana

“Hey mister throw me something” is what you’ll hear along the routes of any one of the nine Mardi Gras parades in Lark Charles, Louisiana.  That “something” will be ropes of brightly colored beads that people, dressed in the regalia of their Krewe, toss from their floats.   New Orleans is … Read more

Ashford Manor, Watkinsville Georgia

Dave Shearon and Mario Castro, life partners, left the cold winters of Chicago behind when they purchased the Ashford Manor B & B in Watkinsville, Georgia.  They saw the inn for the first time on New Year’s Day, 1997.  Walking around the grounds and then inside, both David and Mario … Read more

Pittsburgh – A City on the Move

Twenty years ago if you mentioned to anyone that you were going to Pittsburgh the response would’ve been “Why? Everything is covered with grit from the steel mills.” That was true then; today Pittsburgh has come a long way from its “steel city” days and is now a growing metropolis … Read more