Take a Walk with Birkenstock

Within Nebraska, there are 12 Post Office murals, part of a New Deal program designed to both employ starving artists and bring art to people who rarely had access to it. The murals were intended t...

What is in a name? For years I have hiked to the top of the tallest peak east of the Rocky Mountains, now called Black Elk Peak in the heart of the Black Hills of South Dakota. The trail begins at...

The buffalo at Fort Robinson State Park in the panhandle of Nebraska have ruminant stomachs. So do the Texas Longhorns who also reside at the Fort. Ruminant stomachs have four distinct chambers, a...

All aboard the USS Potomac. The 19th-century phrase “all aboard,” initially applied to steamships with wooden decks. It comes from the French  à bord  literally meaning to get on the boat deck’s w...

Nestled beneath the Twin Peaks of Noe and Eureka is the Eureka Valley also known as The Castro, one of San Francisco's most vibrant and ever-changing historic neighborhoods. Originally the Eureka...

Plaster, when done well, has the look and feel of old-world quality and craftsmanship. For the Footprints storefront we hired Ben Graham, the local king of plasterwork, to restore our historic plas...

Nearly a century ago, the Missouri Theater in St. Joseph, Missouri presented its first movie: a Clara Bow silent film, Rough House Rosie. Local papers described the theater as a "temple of enterta...

When Frederick Law Olmsted designed New York City's Central Park, he set a new standard. For a city aspiring to greatness, beautiful park space became a requirement. San Francisco actually consult...

If you are old enough to remember Ronald Reagan, before he was President and before he was Governor of California, he hosted and served as the spokesman for Death Valley Days. It was an early TV sh...