The world can feel small, yes, but it can also feel incredibly expansive, as our readers showed off this week for the “wide open spaces” theme. The rules: Send your best photo to ...

To some, the story of Christopher Johnson McCandless, the 24-year-old Emory University graduate who starved to death in the Alaskan wilderness in the spring of 1992, will never be anything more than a ...

People spread out on the event lawn at Craig Park during the 2022 Freedom Fest in Greenwood. The park will be the site of the city’s GLOW celebration, a pre-eclipse festival on Sunday featuring live ...

Priorities have changed some since 2019 when the Erie Zoo launched its first capital campaign in 25 years. The goal was to raise $10 million to develop what the zoo called Wide Open Spaces, a plan to ...

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Songwriter Susan Gibson wrote the song "Wide Open Spaces" after moving away for college and trying to express to her mother that she needed room to make her big mistakes. She needed new faces. She ...

Death Valley as the ultimate vacation destination? Well, for me it was, just a few weeks ago. I finally finished the huge and exhausting project that I wrote about in my last entry—the one that felt ...

There's a sense of yearning throughout the Dixie Chicks' discography: From the expansive sense of expedition of "Wide Open Spaces" to the unwillingness to settle articulated in "Ready to Run," the ...