Today this sign on Santa Monica Pier attracts a steady stream of travelers who pose by it.  Interestingly, it’s a replica of a sign that...

In 1926 Route 66 ended at the corner of 7th and Broadway in downtown Los Angles, California.  Today, most people will tell you route 66...

We may think of a nature center as a place with an interpretive building and a few wooded acres where one can hike.  So when...

Some people have a green thumb, and it certainly seemed the farmers in southern Minnesota were experts at growing peas.  Large beautiful peas.  Peas so...

In Le Suer, Minnesota you’ll find what appears to be a modest old home sitting on a lot in front of a grain elevator.  Unless...

In August of 1883 a tornado hit southeastern Minnesota.  It was a devastating event that caused a lot of damage to people and property.  Out...

One of this medical doctors first patients when he came to town was a horse.  He was glad to treat the horse, but he was...

He was a frontier doctor that found himself in the middle of the Dakota War.  His work in that war led him to take a...

Many farms have a long legacy of working the land.  Just outside Waupaca, Wisconsin you can find a dairy that traces its history to the...

It’s hard to imagine being held as a prisoner of war and then, after the war, immigrating to the country that held you captive.  That’s...