Walla Walla is the county seat of Walla Walla County in southeastern Washington. It is home to one of the top small private colleges in the country, Whitman College. With just over 34,000 residents (2020),  it is a reasonable size and growing steadily. It makes an excellent retirement community - in fact Money Magazine at one point ranked it as…...

Lebanon is a fairly affluent city of 20,000 in southwestern Ohio, part of the Cinncinati Metro.   It is both a suburb and a town in its own right.  Tourists come here for the The Warren County Historical Museum, an outstanding county museum. The Glendower State Memorial provides a classic example of residential Greek Revival architecture along with many elegant Empire…...

Berlin is an old city between New Haven and Hartford. The population is just over 20,000 and growing.  It is a residential and industrial town. It's roots go back to the 1760's when it became a center for "white goods" production, which intrepid Yankee Peddlers sold from the streets across colonial America (hence the image on the seal). Photo of…...

Located in northeastern Kansas, at the juntion of the Kansas River and Big Blue River, Manhattan is a college town and the seat of Riley County. Affectionately known as the "LIttle Apple", the town of about 56,000 residents, is best known as home to Kansas State University and Fort Riley, one of the nation's largest U.S. Army military installations.  Manhattan…...