This summer, L.L. Bean invites you to simply step outside and enjoy the fresh air and sunshine.

We'll be your guide with tips and advice to get more out of every moment outdoors. Here's one. On your next camping trip,

turn a headlamp into a lantern in five seconds. Strap the headlamp around an

empty clear water bottle or milk jug and turn it on, the soft white light will brighten up a tent.

For more fun ideas, easy how-tos and inspiring stories, visit L.L.Bine.com slash guide. Amidst the rolling hills of Baltimore County, a two-lane road cleaves the 62 acres that

remain of a former grand estate and plantation that once covered 25,000 acres.

The mansion sits on the north side and the remnants of the farm to the south.

It's a storybook picture set in the middle of what is now a busy suburb of Baltimore.

But as most plantations go, the horrific enslavement of humans Mars the Earth that helped a new nation prosper.

I'm Jason Epperson and today on America's National Parks, Maryland's Hampton National Historical Site. home of the powerful Ridge League family of Baltimore and Annapolis.

The cream-colored mansion sits at the top of the hill

with the rest of the property spreading out beneath it.

The rooms are numerous lavish, sporting hand-painted window shades, wallpaper imported

from Europe, a music room complete with a harp and a courting couch.

Multiple sitting rooms and parlors, each decorated in lush carpets and velvety furniture.

A magnificent cupola tops the three-story house drawing out the heat of the summer.

And if you look very closely, two of the Ridgullies, quite likely children, engraved their names on a pane of glass at the Portico entrance on June 19, 1842.

The terraced gardens spread out behind the mansion, geometric and design, bold

colors and subtle textures flanked by Magnolias and Tulip Poplars. The opulence of the estate for a part-time home is striking. A family of this

prominence spared no attention to detail or luxury. A glass or injury provided citrus fruit year-round. A grassy knoll fronting the mansion conceals the ice house,

an underground structure that stored enough ice to last through the summers and enabled the family to enjoy ice cream even in July.

The remnants of the farm occupy the larger southern parcel of the land. The buildings are beautiful, even the donkey barn, with stone facades featuring clay-colored trim and scalloped caves shaded by the surrounding trees.

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