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Eileen Ogintz

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Creator of takingthekids.com. Seasoned Mom of 3 and harried expert on taking your kids on a #familyvacation in style. Syndicated columnist.#familytravel

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Eileen Ogintz is a leading US family travel expert. She has reported and written the nationally syndicated column “Taking The Kids™” (Tribune Content Agency) for more than three decades. Her website (www.takingthekids.com) contains a rich repository of content focused on family travel. She is also the author of the Kid’s City Guide series from Rowman & Littlefield. There are more than 12 Kid’s Guides to New York City; Washington DC; Boston; Orlando; Los Angeles; Chicago; San Diego; San Francisc…

Eileen Ogintz’s Journalist Portfolio

CroisiEurope Launches Special European Family Cruise Program

CroisiEurope Launches Special European Family Cruise Program

By Kyle McCarthy, Founder of The Family Travel Forum CroisiEurope Cruises, Europe's leading river cruise line…

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Returning to Tokyo after 60 years revives old childhood memories

Returning to Tokyo after 60 years revives old childhood memories

(Originally posted in August 2015} By Andy Yemma TOYKO (August 2015) - August, the hot month. Seventy years a…

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Spring Break Ideas to Meet Every Family's Wish List

Spring Break Ideas to Meet Every Family's Wish List

Are sun and sand, snow or city lights among your spring break ideas? Maybe you want to sail away being pamper…

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The Sand Creek Massacre - Echoes of the past reverberate

The Sand Creek Massacre - Echoes of the past reverberate

By Andy Yemma One of Colorado's tallest peaks - Mt. Evans - will soon be renamed. The first territorial gover…

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Orlando's Terminal C Is A Destination In Itself

Orlando's Terminal C Is A Destination In Itself

By Joanna Mazewski, Taking the Kids Correspondent They say MCO is 'Much Closer to Orlando' but we'd say it's …

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Aboard the Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser Halcyon

Aboard the Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser Halcyon

By Eileen Ogintz Good or Evil? I'm aboard the Walt Disney World Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser. The "ship" i…

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Taking the kids: Let’s celebrate Juneteenth

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By Eileen Ogintz 
| Bristol Herald Courier
The message took a long time to get to the destination. More than two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, and months after the Confederate surrender at Appomattox, Union troops finally arrived in Galveston, Texas, announcing the end of slavery. It was June 19, 1865. kAmQ%96 A6@A=6 @7 %6I2D 2C6 :?7@C>65 E92E[ :? 244@C52?46 H:E9 2 AC@4=2>2E:@?
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All the reasons and places to celebrate Juneteenth

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By Eileen Ogintz 
| Taking The Kids
By Eileen Ogintz Tribune Content Agency Taking the Kids The message took a long time to get to the destination. More than two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, and months after the Confederate surrender at Appomattox, Union troops finally arrived in Galveston, Texas, announcing the end of slavery. It was June 19, 1865.
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Taking the kids: Let’s celebrate Juneteenth

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By Eileen Ogintz 
| Omaha World-Herald
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Does Moines Register, reporter

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Yes!

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For the worst I am afraid

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