Iyna Caruso

Articles & Posts by Iyna Caruso

Whistle Stops

5 classic American rail journeys for your next adventure.

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Labor of Love

Karen Osborne, a mother, wife, and insurance manager in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, found herself taking on a new role — caregiver — when her father’s health began to fail.

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State Fair State of Mind

Six-hundred-pound buttered cows, walleye-on-a-stick snacks, cow-birthing tents, and alligator wrestling can only mean one thing: It’s state fair season in America.

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Reveling in the Past of America’s Favorite Pastime

The teams and ballparks may be long gone, but die-hard fans do their part to keep baseball memories alive.

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Lobbying Efforts: Inside the Grandest Entrances in America

Call it the “surprise inside.” Sometimes the most unassuming buildings conceal the most astonishing lobbies—whimsical, wonderful, and completely unexpected. Here are nine show-stoppers worth a special trip. Icon Brickell If Alice found herself thrust into a futuristic Wonderland, it might look something like the fantasy lobby dreamed up by Philippe Starck for the Miami condominium [...]

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Art’s Healing Powers

More than simply a statement of style, art can improve and enhance one’s physical, mental, and emotional well-being. On any given day, landscape artist Barbara Ernst Prey is apt to find e-mails from museum curators and patrons clogging her in-box. Prey’s canvases hang on the walls of world-class institutions, in private collections, and even at [...]

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