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On the Road Again: In Search of the Lincoln Highway in Pennsylvania, part one
I can still feel it–the exhilaration of flying along the two-lane highway through the Alleghenies: the Lincoln Highway, once touted as America’s Main Street, in Pennsylvania! This was the year, you see, that I was going to do the Lincoln … Continue reading
Posted in On the Road Less Taken..., The Past is Ever Present...
Tagged Lincoln Highway, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wandering
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Why Historians Sigh
I do history, which some maintain is a science but others assert is an art. It is both, I believe, and I lean a bit toward the latter. And then there is myth-busting, which is sometimes impossible. We try. That’s … Continue reading
A Cacophony of Cranes: A Symphony in Three Parts
Part 1 The wonder of the earth fills my soul. Ritual interactions with seasonal events are not to be missed. And so, every fall for many years … Continue reading
Posted in Encounters with Wildlife, The Wonder of It All
Tagged cranes, George Archibald, International Crane Foundation, Jasper-Pulaski FWA, nature, Wisconsin
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The Boys with the Shovels: The CCC at Pokagon State Park
For 62 years, veterans of the Civilian Conservation Corps, most of them from Company 556, have been coming to Indiana’s Pokagon State Park on the last Sunday in July, for the oldest continuous CCC reunion in the country. For the … Continue reading
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Tagged Angola Indiana, CCC, New Deal, Pokagon State Park, Steuben County, WPA
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My Mother Never Warned Me about the House on the Rock
For years I have loved south central Wisconsin, a beautiful land of lakes and rocks and rivers. Within a fifty-mile or so radius of Madison are many wonders, both natural and manmade, and I have wandered the old roads about … Continue reading
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Tagged carousels, roadside attractions, The House on the Rock, Wisconsin
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Ice Cream Sodas, a Carousel, and Two Rivers: My Logansport
Just up the old Michigan Road from Indianapolis, about 75 miles, is Logansport, which, given its key location at the confluence of two rivers (the Eel and the Wabash), existed even before this historic route was platted to it. Logansport was a … Continue reading
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Tagged carousels, Indiana roads, Logansport, Michigan Road, road food, roadside attractions
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Snow Wonder
Early January: It is snowing–a big, old-fashioned snow as pictured on the Christmas cards. The snow of my dreams, the snow of my childhood–at least as I remember it. I grew up in Michiana glacial lakeland where the prevailing winds … Continue reading
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Tagged lake effect, New Carlisle, sledding, snow, snowdrops
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On the Confectionery Trail: A Movable Christmastime Feast
A new tradition began a year ago. It happened to be on my mother’s birthday, which is why this trip is now marked to become an annual event though it was just a coincidence the first time. Mom is gone … Continue reading
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Tagged Christmas, Jeffersonville Indiana, nostalgia, Schimpff's, Zaharakos
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The Road Less Taken: Indiana’s Upper Right Corner
I always love a chance to go to the northern part of our state where the glaciers left behind lots of lakes and rolling terrain. And Pokagon State Park, one of our earliest, dating to 1925, in Steuben County is … Continue reading
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Tagged Angola Indiana, Clay's Family Restaurant, Indiana roads, nostalgia, Orland Indiana, road food, Steuben County, WPA
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I Believe in Dr. Film!
I was asked to write a guest column in “Dr. Film’s Blog.” Read it here: http://www.drfilm.net/blog/?p=463
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