Deena Bouknight
Author
A 30-plus-year writer-journalist, Deena C. Bouknight works from her Western North Carolina mountain cottage and has contributed articles on food culture, travel, people, and more to local, regional, national, and international publications. She has written three novels, including the only historical fiction about the East Coast’s worst earthquake. Her website is DeenaBouknightWriting.com
LATEST
Brooklyn Bridge: A Pause at the Top
In this installment of History Off the Beaten Path, we visit, for its rich history, one of the United States’ most noteworthy engineering achievements.
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Veste Coburg: The ‘Franconian Crown’ of Germany
In this installment of ‘Larger Than Life: Architecture Through the Ages,’ we visit Germany’s most architecturally exceptional and colossal medieval fortress.
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‘Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution’: Beyond the Battle
Though exhaustively covered by historians, this account of the Revolutionary War’s first major battle is seen through the lenses of the people involved.
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The Plaza: Gilded Age-Inspired Hotel
In this installment of ‘Larger Than Life: Architecture Through the Ages,’ we visit an iconic New York City hotel synonymous with luxury and grandeur.
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Fordyce Bathhouse: The Grand Promenade’s Architectural Standout
In this installment of ‘Larger Than Life: Architecture Through the Ages,’ we visit a Renaissance Revival bathhouse in Arkansas’s Bathhouse Row.
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Hot Springs, Arkansas: Historic Bathhouses Over Soothing Waters
In this installment of ‘History Off the Beaten Path,’ we see how hot water bubbling up from fracture zones in limestone led to the creation of a national park.
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America’s Oldest Retreat for Healing
The Homestead hotel in Virginia’s Allegheny Mountains opened a decade before the Revolutionary War.
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Belmond Hotel Monasterio: A Peruvian Andes Adventure
In this installment of ‘Larger Than Life: Architecture Through the Ages,’ we visit a 16th-century former seminary turned resort in an ancient Incan city.
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‘Abraham Lincoln: A History–Vol. I’: Up Close and Personal Observations
What better documenters of the 16th president’s political, professional, and personal actions and words than his two faithful private secretaries.
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Wayah Bald Observation Tower: In the Nantahala National Forest
In this installment of ‘History Off the Beaten Path,’ we stand atop a historic stone structure in the Western North Carolina mountains.
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Brooklyn Bridge: A Pause at the Top
In this installment of History Off the Beaten Path, we visit, for its rich history, one of the United States’ most noteworthy engineering achievements.
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Veste Coburg: The ‘Franconian Crown’ of Germany
In this installment of ‘Larger Than Life: Architecture Through the Ages,’ we visit Germany’s most architecturally exceptional and colossal medieval fortress.
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‘Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution’: Beyond the Battle
Though exhaustively covered by historians, this account of the Revolutionary War’s first major battle is seen through the lenses of the people involved.
|
The Plaza: Gilded Age-Inspired Hotel
In this installment of ‘Larger Than Life: Architecture Through the Ages,’ we visit an iconic New York City hotel synonymous with luxury and grandeur.
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Fordyce Bathhouse: The Grand Promenade’s Architectural Standout
In this installment of ‘Larger Than Life: Architecture Through the Ages,’ we visit a Renaissance Revival bathhouse in Arkansas’s Bathhouse Row.
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Hot Springs, Arkansas: Historic Bathhouses Over Soothing Waters
In this installment of ‘History Off the Beaten Path,’ we see how hot water bubbling up from fracture zones in limestone led to the creation of a national park.
|
America’s Oldest Retreat for Healing
The Homestead hotel in Virginia’s Allegheny Mountains opened a decade before the Revolutionary War.
|
Belmond Hotel Monasterio: A Peruvian Andes Adventure
In this installment of ‘Larger Than Life: Architecture Through the Ages,’ we visit a 16th-century former seminary turned resort in an ancient Incan city.
|
‘Abraham Lincoln: A History–Vol. I’: Up Close and Personal Observations
What better documenters of the 16th president’s political, professional, and personal actions and words than his two faithful private secretaries.
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Wayah Bald Observation Tower: In the Nantahala National Forest
In this installment of ‘History Off the Beaten Path,’ we stand atop a historic stone structure in the Western North Carolina mountains.
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