At a time of year when many travel sites and companies usually put out Top Ten lists and the like to gin up sales, travel mainstay Frommers is taking a different tack, with a series of essays by prominent writers about places that have helped shape and define the U.S.
The essays, by authors including Gloria Steinem, David Sedaris and more, are available to read free online. Pauline Frommer told the Associated Press that “we don’t want people to use these essays as the basis for travel until doing so is safe once again. We hope this list will be a spur to future travel, but we also just wanted it to be great reading right now.”
Frommer invited the authors to write about “places they thought Americans should know about to better understand who we are as a people and/or what we need right now to heal our divisions.”
Among the topics are Serpent Mound Historical Site in Ohio (Steinem), the Little America Hotel in Salt Lake City (Sedaris), the New Hampshire Black Heritage Trail (Jodi Picoult), the Montgomery Alabama National Memorial for Peace and Justice (Kim Johnson). Frommer, with her father Arthur, wrote about Independence Hall in Philadelphia.
Image: NH Black Heritage Trail in Portsmouth
