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...dreaming of a white Christmas, head to Nub's Nob in northern Michigan. Overlooking Lake Michigan's Little Traverse Bay, Nub's Nob has the same likelihood of snowfall as any other resort. With 141 of its own patented snow guns, though, Nub's Nob can turn 7.2 million gal. of water into white magic every day. The reliably skiable snow on its 41 trails won the resort kudos from Ski magazine...
...Waggoner family--Laila, Ben and their three children--"swear by the always snowy Nub's Nob and its low-key attitude. "You never feel the stress that you feel at other ski areas," says Laila. During their Christmas vacations, they have tried it all: rental homes, hotels and condos www.nubsnob.com) Now they have their own vacation home minutes from the resort so they can play host to their extended family for the holidays...
...reminded this week of the fact that long ago, my family used to take vacations in places other than Las Vegas. As a six and seven year old, I would whine for a "glamorous" destination where I could hob-nob and sip champagne with celebrities while my older brother complained that our family was rapidly losing its intellectual edge and we needed to sharpen our minds in a cultural environment. So my weary parents opted for the middle-ground: a cabin in the middle of nowhere. Be it Montana, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Colorado, South Carolina or Virginia, we'd shack...
...During the war,] rich kids from Nob Hill wallowed in boot camp mud along with poor townies from Southie. Fortune 500 heirs bled to death wedged into foxholes with scions of first-generation steelworkers," Rogers says...
...Over Nob Hill and the Harvard Yard, across Washington's broad avenues and Pittsburgh's thrusting chimneys, in a thousand towns and villages, the bells began to toll. In Caracas, Venezuela, a lone Marine sergeant strode across the lawn of the U.S. embassy while a soft rain fell, saluted the flag, then lowered it to half-mast. At U.S. bases from Korea to Germany, artillery pieces boomed out every half hour from dawn to dusk in a stately, protracted tattoo of grief...