Jenna Schnuer

National Geographic Traveler: A Fair to RememberJuly/Aug 2011

The Ferris wheel awaits. This charticle serves up the Blue Ribbon goods on five State Fairs. Pick up the July/Aug issue of Traveler to find out the best place to eat candy buckeyes, which fair serves reindeer sausage, and where you can meet Bardo the Clown.

National Geographic Traveler's Intelligent Travel Blog: Make Your Own FestivalSeptember 28, 2010

 I couldn't tell exactly what the noise was or where it was coming from: There was the ping ping ping of xylophones, a beating drum, and the shaking rattling noises of...something. Pursing the sounds across the grounds of the New York Hall of Science, I expected to find a small band of people using a clearing as a practice space. Instead I found a guy in a plaid shirt standing behind a folding table loaded with small player-pianoesque musical instruments (aka, Nick Yulman and his Bone Conductor Mechanical Orchestra).

My brain-swirling day at World Maker Faire NY was officially underway.

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Executive Travel: Playing Poker OnlineMarch 2008

It started out as a way to amp up his skills. Jeff Snell, the founder and principal broker of Raleigh, N.C.–based Enlign Business Brokers, had heard that online poker would "be beneficial to my career as a professional negotiator. Being able to read and respond and make communication changes in real time is important and, of course, that’s what poker is all about."

Now, just two months later, Snell has become a dedicated online poker player. "When I started, I literally had the little card that said which hand beats which hand, because I knew nothing," he says. But these days, he has even started claiming victory at online tournaments. "They have dozens of tournaments a night, so it's not like you're the World Series of Poker champion—but [in my first win], there were still 899 other people who didn’t get there."

Read the full story on the Executive Travel site.

American Way: Straight ShootersAugust 1, 2006

Marble Club Super Dome. The name conjures up visions of a palatial state government building or a Louis XIV–inspired monstrosity to sport. To get there, you turn off Highway 163 North in Tompkinsville (population 2,600) onto Armory Road (it looks like it’s a one-lane road, but you can squeeze two cars on there) and drive about a minute past the Monroe County Fairgrounds. On the far side of the parking lot sits a large wooden shack that looks less than super and nothing like a dome. But what goes on inside is as grand as the name implies.

This is where they play Rolley-Hole Marbles, a tradition in Monroe County that stretches back a century and a half, to a time when James Buchanan was president.

Read the piece on the American Way site.