Mai Tai Tom’s Magical History Tour Chapter Nine: Our History Lesson Concludes Day Eight: It’s A Magazine & A Museum, A Visit To Jerusalem in 3D, This Is Big, My Meeting With The Pope, Serving You Since 1856, Last Tickets Of The Day, Enlightening Museum, Absorb & Learn, Tommy Be […]

Mai Tai Tom’s Magical History Tour Chapter Eight:  From Founding Fathers To Founding Farmers Day Eight – Please … No Monty Python Reference, Home James, Hello Dolley, Better Than Monticello?, It’s A Small World, Tracy’s Pen Goes Wild, A Farewell To Arm, The Lone Ranger, The President & First Lady, […]

Mai Tai Tom’s Magical History Tour Chapter Seven:  Presidents Day Day Seven – Waffling, Tom & Tom, Terrific Tour, Kids Ask The Darndest Things, Jefferson’s Coffee Addiction, Ash Lawn Or Highland, Payne In The Ass, Hush Hush Sweet Charlottesville, Can Never Get Enough Hamilton, Contentious Grounds, The Hills Are Not […]

Mai Tai Tom’s Magical History Tour Chapter Six: The Battle Of Gettysburg Day Six – Trying To Keep My Eyes Open, Gettysburg By George, History Comes Alive, Francis Scott Key’s Son & The General,  A Massive Screw-Up (Or Was It), Uni-Sickles, Warren Stands Tall, Home State Advantage Four Score, 1776, […]

Mai Tai Tom’s Magical History Tour Chapter Five: Philly Finale Day Five: I’ve Got To Be Free, Rooms of Beauty, Walk Like An Egyptian, How About That Secret Handshake, A Rocky Time To The Top, Tracy Falls In Love with Two Sargents, The Bet, The Big Cheese, No Moe or […]

Mai Tai Tom’s Magical History Tour Chapter Four: Basilica, Barnes & Bones Day Four: Girder Guys, Peter Paul and Kathy, A Contentious Move, Rampant Renoir, Where Did Van Gogh Toulouse-Lautrec, An Artful Lunch, Disturbingly Informative, Skeletal Remains, I’ll Take Manhattan, The Streets of Philadelphia, Biking Bar, Marvelous Mexican and National […]

Mai Tai Tom’s Magical History Tour Chapter Three: Philadelphia Freedom Day Three: Independence Day, Act Of Congress; Tiptoe Through The Tulips, Let Freedom Ring, Phake Philly Phanatic, Skuggs The Squirrel, Go Fly A Kite, Stop/Start The Presses, Take A Ride On The Reading, Akia In A Kia, Not Exactly Hamilton, […]

Mai Tai Tom’s Magical History Tour Chapter Two: You Say You Want A Revolution Day Two – Subway Impaired, We Almost Dined There, A Walk Through American History, In Tents, The Streets Of Philadelphia, No Old Mary, Where’s Karen, What’s A Founding Father Like You Doing In A Bank Like […]

Mai Tai Tom’s Magical History Tour Chapter One: Square Roots Although it came 52 years late, my 8th grade field trip to Philadelphia, Gettysburg, presidential homes in Virginia and a quick stop in Washington DC finally came to fruition this spring. Our friends Kim and Mary joined Tracy and me […]