Take a Walk with Birkenstock
The Castro (District) — San Francisco, CA
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 work at the Missouri Theater by Waylande Gregory
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...
The Missouri Theater — St. Joseph, Missouri
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...
Salesforce Park — San Francisco, California
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...
Harmony Borax Works — Death Valley, California
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...
Dante's View — Death Valley National Park, California
When you are at the bottom of Death Valley at Badwater Basin you are 282 feet below sea level. This spot has a spring-fed pool with high salinity. When an early survey crew happened upon this spo...
Zabriskie Point — Death Valley National Park, California
I had long known of Zabriskie Point from Michelangelo Antonioni's tedious 1970 art film of the same name. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of that film was Harrison Ford's tiny, uncredited part...
Art Walk at Crystal Bridges Museum — Bentonville, AR
In Northwest Arkansas, the trees are starting to bud, daffodils are about spent, and the lenten roses are blooming. Spring is in the air. Whether you are marching in a rally or strolling along the...
Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge, northwest Missouri
A wild-goose chase is an often-used idiom. An idiom is a non-literal phrase or expression whose meaning is not discernible from the actual words of the phrase. From the process of usage, the phras...
