Take a Walk with Birkenstock

I first encountered the Josyln Art Museum, as I retraced Lewis and Clark's passage up the Missouri River. I had read Stephen Ambrose's book, Undaunted Courage, and wanted to follow the Corps of Dis...

Nebraska City, home of Arbor Day, is located in Southeast Nebraska on the banks of the Missouri River. When European settlers first arrived, trees were scarce. Amongst those early settlers were Jul...

The first thing that most customers notice upon entering our store, besides our vast selection of Birkenstock footwear of course, are the 12-foot-tall agricultural themed murals which surround them...

Bravo to the city of Des Moines and the substantial fortune of John and Mary Pappajohn for redeveloping a section of their downtown. A blighted area, on the western edge of downtown, was transforme...

Walkability is a key factor in determining the popularity of a city. At more than double the square miles of New York City, Houston has less than one-third of the population. It is a sprawling city...

Manipulating photographs is as old as photography. William H. "Dad" Martin worked in a photography studio in Ottawa, KS at the beginning of the previous century. Just as travel postcards were beco...

I was bicycling through the panhandle of Nebraska, a most beautiful part of the country, when I came upon a mailbox in the shape of a handgun.  Although my personal politics may or may not align wi...

Fort Larned is one of the best-preserved frontier forts even though many buildings were lost from neglect after it was decommissioned in 1878. The National Park Service administers Fort Larned. Th...

As a kid, I avidly read the books of the Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer Thor Heyerdahl. His two books Kon-Tiki and Aku-Aku dealt with the original settlement and mysteries of Easter Island. ...