Annette Laing

2 days ago | annettelaing.substack.com | Annette Laing

This is an Annette on the Road post at Non-Boring History, in which historian Dr. Annette Laing writes about her travels in tourist mode, learning and sharing as she goes.

1 week ago | annettelaing.substack.com | Annette Laing

Today is a free post. But please note: I paywall most of my work. I don’t use paywalls because I’m a mean nasty greedy lady. And I don’t make them all free to cynically pretend I’m a wonderful generous person for PR reasons, so you will reward me. Instead, I’m honest with you: This is fulltime work, it’s expensive to do, and the culture we have of not paying writers unless they tell us what we want to hear has been a disaster.

1 week ago | annettelaing.substack.com | Annette Laing

“Here's a place that's cheaper than a good chain hotel, and it sounds awesome.”“I was just looking at that,” said Hoosen. Sold. Following in the footsteps of Hollywood glitterati, we would spend the night in a hotel in New Mexico that once played host to the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Jimmy Cagney, Henry Fonda, and many more.

2 weeks ago | annettelaing.substack.com | Annette Laing

I once met a British woman on a plane between Edinburgh and London, and we chatted about transatlantic travel. “Americans come over here to look at old buildings, don’t they?” she said. “And we go over there for the fifty-foot waterslides.” True enough! So it might surprise you that I've found a British tourist to the U.S. who was very interested in American society and culture, and not at all in fifty-foot waterslides.

2 weeks ago | annettelaing.substack.com | Annette Laing

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