The large, brown oak door stood partially open, the cavernous foyer was empty, and the museum was, as best we could tell, deserted. Continue reading
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Nature / North Dakota / Science / Travel
Wind and Water: The Unrelenting Sculptors
“The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.” — Henry David Thoreau Continue reading
Roadside Americana: Read Between The Signs
Your probably aren’t aware of it, but your sartorial life would be very different if it weren’t for the small town of Meadville in the northwest corner of Pennsylvania. Continue reading
A Root Beer River and Cyan Sea
For heat-seared Southerners searching for a respite, Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is the perfect place in summer. Temperatures that probably scorch cold-hardened Yoopers (residents of the UP – as in UPers), seem downright refreshing to us. Continue reading
Queen of the Gypsies: Long May She Reign
Want to see the graves of Charles Dickens, William Shakespeare, and Charles Darwin? Then it’s off to London’s Westminster Abbey. Have a hankering to visit the final resting place of Kelly Mitchell, aka “Queen of the Gypsies?” Continue reading
“Frisky” Buffalo In Our Tent Camp
Terri and I are avid campers and have been since our university days. We’ve camped from coast to coast and border to border. Before we got our tiny popup last summer, we were tent campers. Continue reading
Cross Creek: A Small Place of Enchantment
“I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.” ― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Continue reading
