Tag Archives: history

into the woods

Around the time the Romans built the Pantheon, a seed fell on the rich soil of Northern California. From it grew a sprout, a tiny trunk, a twig, a branch, a mighty giant. About 2000 years after gravity called, the Hyperion is defying the earth voice and reaching for the sky, trying to touch heaven […]

the queen of pop

When TV was still the window to the world, the world witnessed some iconic musical performances. The Moonwalk, Elvis and the Beatles at Ed Sullivan’s show and of course Madonna in a wedding dress rolling around on MTV’s global stage. The original King and the King of Pop abducted their thrones, but the Queen still […]

‘godness’ on a mountain top

Hit the road, tune to a rock station and there is a fair chance you’ll hear Shocking Blue’s Venus at the end of the end. The smashhit single that reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 on February 7, 1970 sold over 7,5 million copies and is still an evergreen for commercials, movies and […]

summertimmmmme

Not one, not two, not three, four, five….but six articles by journeylism.nl are featured in the ‘summer is finally here’ edition of AmericA Magazine that hits shelves and doormats on June 18, 2019. From Alberta, Canada to Rapid City, South Dakota. From Tampa, Florida to Kentucky and (take me home, country roads) West Virginia with […]

ghosts in the desert

“There never was another place where, in proportion to the population, so many murders were committed without the criminals being brought to trial or even apprehended.” This is what a certain John Riggs wrote some 130 years ago about the time and place in which the Techatticup mine seems to be frozen in nowadays. Underneath […]

philadelphi-yeah!

History, art, culture, nature, food, hiking, biking, rafting, city tripping and so, so much more is part of the DNA of Philly and its countryside. From the snow dusted Pocono Mountains to the foodporn of ‘Mushroom Capital of the World’ to the rolling hills that gave birth to the United States army to the streets […]

50 shades of black

History built a home on Washington’s National Mall where monuments and museums are windows into the United States’ past. It took until september of 2016 to complete this ‘house’. Then an architectural gem openend its doors to tell a dark tale but also show what a centuries long struggle has given a nation that took […]

america magazine #2 2017

The summer edition of America Magazine – an Elvis special – hit the stores including four articles by journeylism.nl which are now available online in the publication section of journeylism.nl in September. The topics of the four articles are American Songbook – Michael Jackson, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, The Mission District in San Francisco and Las Vegas’ […]