Teresa Bitler
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Freelance writer specializing in travel, finance, and real estate articles
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1 week ago |
saturdayeveningpost.com | Teresa Bitler
Thirteen years before Route 66 opened, the Lincoln Highway became the nation’s first transcontinental thoroughfare, stretching from New York City to San Francisco. At the turn of the 20th century, traveling across country by automobile didn’t make much sense. Paved roads didn’t exist beyond city limits and, even then, usually only in the commercial areas of larger cities. There were no gas stations, restaurants, or motels on the roads between communities either.
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2 months ago |
saturdayeveningpost.com | Teresa Bitler
In 1842, Felix Mendelssohn — composer of one of the world’s most recognizable pieces, “Wedding March” — arrived at Buckingham Palace to play for Queen Victoria while she sang. As she flipped through his music, the queen stopped at “Italien.” This was the piece she wanted sing. The only problem was Mendelssohn hadn’t written “Italien.” His older sister, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, had, something he embarrassingly had to admit to the queen before playing it for her.
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Feb 3, 2025 |
saturdayeveningpost.com | Teresa Bitler
The first time I visited a dude ranch, I felt transported, not to the Old West but away from the world. Life contracted, and I could focus on what mattered: reconnecting with my husband and two horse-crazy daughters, 8 and 10 at the time. To this day, it’s my favorite family vacation.
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Dec 5, 2024 |
saturdayeveningpost.com | Teresa Bitler
At 9 a.m. on July 1, 1875, the fire department, churches, and other institutions throughout Westerville, Ohio frantically rang their bells, summoning citizens to the southeast corner of West Main and Knox streets. There, Henry Corbin faced the crowd of about 1,000, a pistol in each hand. Just the night before, vandals had broken into Corbin’s building, dumped his whiskey, and bore holes into the beer kegs to prevent him from opening Westerville’s first saloon.
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Dec 2, 2024 |
saturdayeveningpost.com | Teresa Bitler
At the beginning of the 20th century, Galveston was one of the most prosperous cities in the United States. It boasted the first homes in Texas with electricity, streetlights at night, and telephone service. A major U.S. port at the time, its wealth earned it the nickname the “Wall Street of the South.” With that prosperity came hubris, though, and it cost Galveston almost everything.
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