Places that presidents call home often become major tourist attractions, from estates at Mount Vernon and Monticello, to Hodgenville, Ky., where Abe Lincoln's log cabin once stood, to Bill Clinton's boyhood home in Hope, Ark. ...more

November 23, 2008

The archaeologists were delighted to at last find the remains of George Washington's boyhood home, but got stumped when they looked for evidence of the cherry tree and rusty hatchet. ...more

July 3, 2008

About the same time Barry Melrose was introduced as the Tampa Bay Lightning's new head coach late Tuesday morning, folks in Melrose's hometown of Kelvington, Saskatchewan, nearly 2,500 miles from Tampa in central Canada, were starting to prepare for another sleepy day in the rural farming community. ...more

June 25, 2008

Akron/Family is a band and nothing more, Dana Janssen is quick to explain. 'Really, it's not any sort of religion,' Janssen says by telephone from his boyhood home in rural Pennsylvania. ...more

September 7, 2007

Derek Baldry noticed the noise first. 'I used to run outside,' he said, 'and listen to the crowd roar.' ...more

September 6, 2007