A new exhibit at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport: Jimmy Carter: Georgia’s Native Son,” uses mementos, photographs and artifacts to tell the story of the South Georgia peanut farmer who become the state’s 76th governor and eventually the nation’s 39th president. Jimmy Carter: Georgia’s Native Son is displayed in the walkway connecting the main security […]
A National Geographic website about Grimms’ Fairy Tales offers these words of advice: “Looking for a sweet, soothing tale to waft you toward dreamland? Look somewhere else.” That’s because the stories Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm collected in the early 1800’s don’t always have happy endings. There are witches. There are wolves. And there are creatures […]
The Chinese New Year will be celebrated this Sunday and Singapore’s Changi Airport is ready with giant displays to welcome in the Year of the Tiger: Changi Airport also opened up an Aviation Gallery in Terminal 2, with loads of information stations, interactive kiosks, and 600 tiny airplanes hanging from the ceiling. Here’s a “please-touch” […]
Next weekend, February 6 and 7, 2010, visitors to the Düsseldorf International Airport will be entertained by skiers and snowboarders performing stunts and jumps on a 130-foot long ski slope set up right in the shopping arcade of the terminal. Pretty impressive by itself, but if you’re heading to Düsseldorf to see the world’s first […]
A new exhibit at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport: Jimmy Carter: Georgia’s Native Son,” uses mementos, photographs and artifacts to tell the story of the South Georgia peanut farmer who become the state’s 76th governor and eventually the nation’s 39th president. Jimmy Carter: Georgia’s Native Son is displayed in the walkway connecting the main security […]
A National Geographic website about Grimms’ Fairy Tales offers these words of advice: “Looking for a sweet, soothing tale to waft you toward dreamland? Look somewhere else.” That’s because the stories Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm collected in the early 1800’s don’t always have happy endings. There are witches. There are wolves. And there are creatures […]
The Chinese New Year will be celebrated this Sunday and Singapore’s Changi Airport is ready with giant displays to welcome in the Year of the Tiger: Changi Airport also opened up an Aviation Gallery in Terminal 2, with loads of information stations, interactive kiosks, and 600 tiny airplanes hanging from the ceiling. Here’s a “please-touch” […]
Next weekend, February 6 and 7, 2010, visitors to the Düsseldorf International Airport will be entertained by skiers and snowboarders performing stunts and jumps on a 130-foot long ski slope set up right in the shopping arcade of the terminal. Pretty impressive by itself, but if you’re heading to Düsseldorf to see the world’s first […]
You know that old saying, “If life gives you lemons, make lemonade”? Well the folks at Reno-Tahoe International Airport have taken a pesky bear and made a new airport display. Last year, officials killed a 400-pound Black Bear that was attacking livestock in a residential area 10 miles south of the airport. Today that bear […]
Yesterday was the official holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. But you can learn more about the Nobel Peace Prize winner anytime you pass through Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport (ATL). Since the mid-1980’s, the airport has had an exhibit titled Legacy of a Dream…Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The exhibit, on Concourse E, […]