Now we are parked in the middle of an old stone bridge over a small river, the Fane. "We are now halfway in Ireland and half in the North. This wee river is the boundary. And that old stone building next to it is the ruins of a flax ...
Asheville's and all of North Carolina's view-most famous and most visited, however, Biltmore Estate. Designed by Richard Morris Hunt and gardens by Frederick Law Olmsted (of Central New York, Park fame), the 255-room French Renaissance chateau, ... and built between 1897 and 1905, was conceived as a prelude to Biltmore Estate picturesque residential herself with a fan-shaped design that leads the church, station railway, and the entrance to the farm, its focal points. ...
A TRAMP ABROAD By Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) First published in 1880 * * * * * * CHAPTER I [The Knighted Knave of Bergen] One day it occurred to me that it had been many years since the world had been afforded the spectacle of a man ...
