NEW YORK, WASHINGTON DC & THE MID-ATLANTIC ICONIC TRIPS When does something that is pretty well-known, or relatively famous, or defining of a shared experience or essential idea become truly iconic? We’ll tell you. When it becomes the Lincoln Memorial, the National Mall, Times Square, Yankee Stadium, Coopers-town, Columbia University, Ellis Island, the Liberty Bell, a Philly cheese-steak, Harpers Ferry, Antietam, the Appalachian Trail.

In fact, the overwhelmingly iconic nature of many of the mid-Atlantic’s biggest attractions can get in the way of seeing them fresh, as if for the first time. It’s easy to suffer a psychic dis-sonance, to see the Statue of Liberty without really seeing that fine lady, instead only seeing the thousands of images you already know from logos, T-shirts and green foam hats, ad infinitum.

So here we’re bringing you New York, Washington DC, the American Revo-lution, the Civil War, a hot dog and pizza, an Ivy League campus, the Blue Ridge Mountains, a major league baseball game and summertime beaches in ways that are fresh. What you see is up to you.

NEW YORK, WASHINGTON DC & THE MID-ATLANTIC’S BEST TRIPS C S B S S

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2 Beach-Hopping the Mid-Atlantic p45 6 The Civil War Tour p85

The East Coast has quite a bit of iconic music. Give

these tunes a spin, and see the regional chapter playlists for more.

· “Take the ‘A’ Train,” Ella Fitzgerald with the Duke Ellington Orchestra

· “Autumn in New York,” Frank Sinatra

· “Summer in the City,” The Lovin’ Spoonful

· “My Old School,” Steely Dan

· “Centerfi eld,” John Fogerty

· “(I’ve Had) the Time of My Life,” Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes

· “Gonna Fly Now (Theme from Rocky),” Nel-son Pigford & DeEtta Little

· “My City of Ruins,” Bruce Springsteen

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1 Ultimate Urban Adventure opposite 2 Beach-Hopping the

Mid-Atlantic p45 3 We the People p55 4 East Coast Eats p65 5 The Boys of Summer p75 6 The Civil War Tour p85 7 Travels along the C&O Canal p93 8 Universities & Colleges p101 9 Upscale Appalachian Trail p107

ICONIC TRIPS

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