Take a Walk with Birkenstock

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...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

UPDATE (10/07/25): Congratulations to the winner of America's Best Restroom® 2025, Bear Head Lake State Park in Ely, Minnesota! Hooray for State Parks! We were honored to be a nominee in this year'...

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...

"History is who we are and why we are the way we are.” —David McCullough

After the inauguration of President Eisenhower, former President Harry S. Truman and his wife Bess headed to the train station to go home to Independence, MO. He had no job, no pension and no secr...