Take a Walk with Birkenstock
The Met Cloisters — Upper Manhattan NYC
A Cloister is a covered walkway or open arcade surrounding a courtyard. Enclosed within the perimeter walls, the cloister and courtyard are a controlled introspective environment. In a monastery,...
Gran Quivira Ruins — Estancia Basin, NM
Last week our Take a Walk with Birkenstock series took us to the Estancia Basin in New Mexico and the ruins of the pueblo town Quarai. This week we will take a visual tour of Gran Quivira.
At an...
Post Playhouse, Fort Robinson — Nebraska
Where is your favorite spot?
One of my favorite spots is the 4th row center seat in the Post Playhouse at Fort Robinson State Park in Nebraska's Panhandle.
For decades, we have had the pleas...
Ruins at Quarai, New Mexico
My great, great, great, great something or other was William Bradford of Mayflower fame. I think he is12 generations back. I know that because my mom put in a lot of work on the family genealogy. ...
Lawrence, Kansas Bricks
Some innovations are so effective in solving a problem that they become a foundation to a culture. However, in doing so they also become so common that we fail to notice, appreciate or understand t...
Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico
As a kid I had an ailment called Perthes disease. It didn't persist long, but during a family trip to Carlsbad Caverns I was confined to a wheelchair. So, my childhood memory of Carlsbad is totall...
A Walk Down Memory Lane — Our Store's Restroom
The customer restroom for our store is being nominated for Cintas' America's Best Restroom Contest. I wanted to share with you what makes our bathroom special, who built it and what drove the whim...
Silkville, Kansas
My mother received her degree from the University of Kansas in entomology. Therefore, I spent much of my childhood running around our yard with a butterfly net chasing monarchs, red spotted purple...
Arrow Rock, Missouri
"History is who we are and why we are the way we are.” —David McCullough
