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Sunday, March 26, 2017

March 26, 2014: "Mother's Restaurant" in New Orleans, Louisiana. It's a Marine Corps thing.


"Mother's Restaurant" in New Orleans, Louisiana. It's a Marine Corps thing. Semper Fi. We loved it. Convenient to downtown. We walked everywhere. The food was great. The service was good and the place had real character. I felt like we part of history. 26Mar2014





  

 

Mother’s restaurant New Orleans Louisiana
401 Poydras St
New Orleans, Louisiana
(504) 523-9656
Authentic N'Awlins home-style cooking since 1938. The Amato family welcomes you for a taste of tradition.


 

  

Mother’s Restaurant opened its doors in 1938 on Poydras Street’s “Restaurant Row”, situated between a thriving waterfront and the courthouse. Owners Simon and Mary (Mother) Landry and his large family cooked up po’ boys for lines of longshoremen and laborers, newspapermen and attorneys.


During and after World War II, Mother’s became a local hang-out for “the few and the proud” – the U.S. Marine Corps. The Marine spirit was in the family – five of the seven Landry children (five sons and two daughters) joined the Marine Corps. Francis Landry was the first woman in Louisiana to be accepted into the Corps. This special association with the Marines earned Mother’s the title of “TUN Tavern New Orleans” in the late ’60s. The original TUN tavern was the official birthplace of the Marines during the Revolutionary War.


Mother’s is not just a part of this great American tradition, but also stands as a uniquely New Orleans institution. The likes of other family-owned local businesses such as D.H. Holmes Department Stores, K&B Drug Stores, MacKenzie’s Bakery, and Werlein’s Music have all departed from the landscape, while Mother’s Restaurant has not only remained almost exactly the same, but has flourished.


In 1986, the Jerry and John Amato bought Mother’s from the Landry’s sons Jacques and Eddie. With the changing of the guard, many things were added but nothing, fortunately, lost. Jerry Amato, chef and proprietor, doubled the already dizzying size of the menu. Now traditional New Orleans dishes like jambalaya and Shrimp Creole line-up next to the po’ boys that Mother’s made famous, such as the Ferdi Special and the debris po-boy (for a history of these and other sandwiches on the Fun Facts page). Breakfast, lunch and dinner items are cooked with fresh ingredients and bold, delicious flavor.


You will still see longshoremen in boots and you’ll find plenty of locals rubbing elbows in line with visitors, veterans, politicians and movie stars. Mother’s remains true to its working class origins. Nobody gets treated better (or worse) than anybody else. As Jerry Amato says, “Everybody gets fed. Everybody comes back.”


So go ahead, join ranks with the not-so-few, but intensely proud – the Mother’s crowd.

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Monday, February 29, 2016

U.S. Passports to Get a Makeover in 2016 Written by Katherine LaGrave

U.S. Passports to Get a Makeover in 2016
Written by Katherine LaGrave 

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From the passport rule most travelers don't know to State Department suggestions on when to renew (in one word: now), passport news in the past few months has been frequent, wide-ranging, and indicative of wider reform in the coming years. As part of the government's efforts to cut down on fraud, forgery, and misuse, updated security features will be unveiled later this year...

Thursday, December 10, 2015

Hopefully the first of several stories about the Carroll County Chamber of Commerce trip to Cuba in November


Hopefully the first of several stories about the Carroll County Chamber of Commerce trip to Cuba in November - by Kevin E. Dayhoff


Outside of the town of Viñales, a Cuban tobacco processor pauses at the end of the day at a small government-run tobacco processing and sorting facility called a “despalillo de Tabaco.’ The employees – mostly women, sorted and graded tobacco by quality and color for use in the Francisco Donatien factory in Pinar del Rio. Photo by Kevin E. Dayhoff Nov. 6, 2015




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Friday, November 13, 2015

Havanatur Tour and Travel





El balneario de Varadero, el principal polo turístico de sol y playa de Cuba, aspira a superar este año el récord de 1,5 millones de visitantes extranjeros después de haber pasado el umbral del millón de turistas internacionales al cierre de septiembre, según datos oficiales.

Desde 2008, Varadero recibe de forma más o menos constante alrededor de un millón de visitantes extranjeros en el conjunto del año, la marca podría ser superada este año tres meses antes de lo previsto.

En plena temporada alta, que en Varadero coincide con los meses de julio y agosto, los hoteles estaban al 82% de su capacidad, por lo que “en el corto plazo, el polo está listo para recibir aún más visitantes”. La llegada generalizada de turistas de Estados Unidos debería provocar la desaparición de las temporadas turísticas en Varadero

En medio del boom turístico que vive Cuba, que en 2014 superó por primera vez los 3 millones de visitantes extranjeros, Varadero se está preparando para mejorar la calidad de sus instalaciones hoteleras e incrementar la cuota de aproximadamente un tercio de los turistas que aterrizan en la isla.

Para 2016, existen planes de ampliar la plaza hotelera del polo turístico en 3.000 habitaciones, que se distribuirán en cuatro nuevos hoteles de 4 y 5 estrellas ya proyectados, uno de ellos ya en construcción, indicó Fernández.

En la actualidad, Varadero cuenta con más de 20.224 habitaciones hoteleras, de las que unas 17.500 corresponden a hoteles de cuatro y cinco estrellas, en línea con el objetivo de “elevar el confort de la planta habitacional de Varadero”.

Para atraer un perfil de turista más variado, Varadero también planea diversificar su oferta turística más allá del sol y playa y aprovechar su cercanía a La Habana, a unos 150 kilómetros; a las ciudades del centro de la isla de Trinidad y Cienfuegos, o al parque natural y reserva de la biosfera de la Ciénaga de Zapata.

“La Ciénaga de Zapata es el refugio más importante de aves migratorias del Caribe, con más de 650 especies, además de contar con una plataforma submarina adyacente con corales de todas las variedades”.

Varadero también se está preparando para el turismo náutico con la construcción de una marina que cuenta con 1.200 amarres y la previsión de construir otra en la que habrá 200 amarres.

El turismo es la segunda fuente de ingresos de la isla, con 2.700 millones de dólares facturados en 2014, a los que Varadero contribuyó aproximadamente en un 38%.

Escrito por EFE, Publicado por El Nacional. Venezuela

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Monday, December 22, 2014

Close but no cigars after vacation trip to Cuba By Katie V. Jones


Close but no cigars after vacation trip to Cuba

By Katie V. Jones, katievjones@aim.com June 23, 2014


It was an adventure of a lifetime.

On June 1, about 40 members of the Carroll County Chamber of Commerce returned from an eight-night, nine-day trip to Cuba. The cultural exchange trip offered a look into a country many Americans do not get a chance to see – but should, according to those who went.

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They flew in from Miami and landed in Camaguey, Cuba's third-largest city. Known for its clay pots, the city dates back to the 1500s. Also on the itinerary were trips to the colonial city of Trinidad with a stop at a village of approximately 70 sugar mills, and visits to Cienfuegos, the Bay of Pigs and Havana.

Only recently have Americans been allowed to visit Cuba, and those visits are only through people to people and authorized venues. An ongoing embargo with the U.S. prevents trade with Cuba. No one on the trip was allowed to bring home anything, according to Yingling, especially Cuban cigars, coffee or rum.


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Sunday, February 3, 2013

Workers, lacking time or money, leave vacation days unused

Workers, lacking time or money, leave vacation days unused



Tisa L. Silver-Canady, who counsels University of Maryland, Baltimore students about loan repayments and runs other financial education programs at the school, realized toward the end of last year that she had not used about a third of her vacation time... http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bs-bz-unused-vacation-workplace-20130112,0,2226067.story

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Kevin Dayhoff is an artist - and a columnist for:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevindayhoffTwitpic: http://twitpic.com/photos/kevindayhoff
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