American Countryside

Perhaps it’s fitting that you have to go a bit out of the way to find the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum.  This well known site is certainly worth the drive, but in the early days, it was one of the more remote locations on the shores of Lake Superior…

Some sailors and airman have long feared the Bermuda Triangle for the mysterious fate of some who have passed there.  Whitefish Point is a bit different though.  Everyone knows its tremendous toll on ships, but for years, it didn’t seem to deter captains from plowing on through regardless the condition…

On a roadmap, it’s simply listed as “Whitefish Point.”  That place name has little significance to most, but for those living in northern Michigan, it’s a place very well known on land and sea…

If I mention the town of South Williamsport, Pennsylvania, sports fans will know there is one iconic event that takes place there every summer.  It’s quite a spectacle in a town of only 6000 people…

Today we take for granted that just about every young boy or girl in the country could probably sign up to play t-ball or baseball in their local community.  But that once wasn’t the case, and this man set out to give every kid a chance to play baseball.  What he created is something you know yet today…

A stop in Atlanta, Illinois holds a lot to see and do in a place that isn’t very large.  They’ve done a great job of celebrating old route 66 and sharing some of its unique…and in this case, very large stories…

You probably would not think a company making fiberglass boats would have a big impact on a major highway.  But a trip to this small Illinois town will show you the unique tie that business had to some very unique giants still around today…

This island has some of the best views of San Francisco Bay and the city itself…yet most people didn’t want to live here.   In fact, some couldn’t bear the thought of such a pretty scene to be had…

At one time it was one of the nation’s most important forts…but that’s not how people would know it today.  The story of one very famous rock is a destination of thousands of tourists headed to San Francisco…

Imagine you unearthed the bones of an animal and had little idea of what you found. Now imagine making up a tale about the creature and traveling the nation to tell its story. That’s exactly what happened just south of St. Louis…