Lee’s Chocolates & Souvenirs is open at Hawley’s former Trading Post. Candy is made on site by the granddaughter of former Trading Post owners Beverly Lou Beck.

Explore Berlin, the capital of Germany, and discover its most famous tourist attractions. Visit the Brandenburg Gate, the ...

French artist Thierry Noir’s paintings pop with the colourful cartoonish characters that have come to define him. The characters – featuring big heads, elongated faces, bulging lips – exude a sense of ...

The event was the beginning of the end for the Cold War, as Warsaw Pact nations began to abandon communism and West Germany became the clear victor in the “conflict” over the East. By 1991, even the ...

This year marks the 35th anniversary of a monumental moment in history—the fall of the Berlin Wall. On November 9, 1989, the world watched as the Wall that divided East and West Germany for nearly ...

Street art takes many forms, and the vibrant murals on the Berlin Wall both before and after its fall are expressions of people's opinions. But there was often secrecy around the processes for ...

On Nov. 9, 1989, the wall that separated East Germany and the Soviet Union and its satellites from the rest of the world, began to come down. Images beamed around the world, of drifting snow, bright ...

In 1987, celebrating the 750th anniversary of its founding, the two sides of Berlin — the capitalist West and the socialist East — spent the year competing to see who could showcase the best cultural, ...

Whenever I visit Berlin I can’t help remembering my spooky visit to East Berlin back in 1971. I vividly recall how, as we were about to return to West Berlin, our tour bus was stopped and emptied at a ...

Communist East Germany closed its border in Berlin on Aug. 13, 1961, when it erected a wall that eventually turned into an increasingly elaborate fortification snaking through the city and around ...

As Germany marks the 35th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s fall this year, key witnesses are highlighting the crucial role played by St. John Paul II in bringing about the peaceful revolution that ...