Drive north from Traverse City, Michigan and you’ll find beautiful fruit orchards on a narrow peninsula that dead ends at this lighthouse.  It’s a place that attracts visitors and some folks who even wait months or years to get a chance to live there for a week…

The Great Lakes shoreline is dotted with many old lighthouses.  Many are not needed these days, but most have great stories to share.  One such place is in northwestern Michigan…

It’s the junction of two important rivers – the Mississippi and the Minnesota – and it made sense to have a fort here.  But for those stationed at what became Ft. Snelling, enduring the winter and the accompanying isolation was something few wanted to face…

It’s one of the most iconic pictures in presidential election history.  A picture of President Harry Truman holding up a paper that proclaims, “Dewey Defeats Truman.”  Of course the headline was wrong and the story behind how it all happened is one you won’t want to miss…

In the summer of 1948 Harry Truman was losing the race to return for a second term as president.  But that summer his campaign accomplished something that would be hard to replicate now…especially considering the way they travelled to do it…

It was the day after the voting had ended and people woke up to find a different person was elected president than they may have imagined.  It sounds like recent history, but it’s actually a story from 1948…

We’ve probably all heard of Native American mounds scattered throughout parts of North America.  Here just east of present day St. Louis was the largest of those mounds.  In fact, you can still see it and climb it today…

Before there was a United States of America, this was the largest city within its modern boundaries.  In fact, its size still marvels those who consider its origins over a thousand years ago…

The heyday of passenger rail travel was about a century ago.  But don’t tell that to the folks in southern Indiana, for they are riding the historic rails of this town as they did in times of old…

Airlines might devote more flights to popular winter destinations like Phoenix or Florida.  One hundred years ago they were adding trains for this popular spot in Indiana…