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Carole Rosenblat

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2022

I'm a travel journalist, speaker, and travel industry expert. I've visited, worked, and/or lived in 67 countries and all 50 U.S. states. I've traveled literally around the world solo without a plan. I own the tour company Drop Me Anywhere Tours for Women.
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Traditional wooden nutcrackers await the finishing touches at the Füchtner family workshop in Germany, where the iconic style is said to have originated.

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The Family Behind the First Traditional Nutcracker Is Still Making Them

Wilhelm Füchtner's iconic 1870s design began a legacy that continues in the same small workshop in Germany's Ore Mountains.

By Carole Rosenblat
Snow globes were invented at the turn of the 20th century but didn't often feature Christmas characters until after World War II.

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This Family Gave the World the Snow Globe

But did they create the famous one with a starring role in Citizen Kane?

By Carole Rosenblat
When Rosa Slade Gragg bought this home at 326 East Ferry Street in Detroit in 1941, neighborhood rules forbade the Black woman from living there.

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The Black Woman Who Didn’t Just Open Doors—She Moved Them

Rosa Slade Gragg wouldn’t let a racist restrictive covenant stand in the way of the Detroit Association of Colored Women’s Clubs.

By Carole Rosenblat

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