When my late father retired, he opened a frame shop. He painted, drew and photographed and did it well. I wish I shared his artistic talents. While I don’t have his talent, I do however, share his enjoyment of the arts. When my husband Keith and I had the chance to visit Perivale Gallery and […]
The entire two and a half square miles of downtown of Eureka Springs is on the National Historic Register. I traveled to Eureka Springs on a hosted trip along with my friend Rose Hammit and a group of travel writers that are part of the North American Travel Journalists Association. When we drove into town […]
Museum Director Kay Ingersol literally guided us by phone to the Kinney Pioneer Museum and Historical Society of North Iowa. At first we had trouble finding our way. After arriving she took us on a whirlwind tour. The Kinney Pioneer Museum was perhaps the most amazing find of our hosted trip to Mason City, Iowa. […]
How’s the song go? “Some day’s are diamonds, some days are gold”, this past Saturday was both a diamond and gold! Keith and I struck it rich when we found the lovely Lewis Round Barn Museum. On our way to a flea market at the Adams County Fairgrounds, we spied the Lewis Round Barn Museum […]
Robert Pershing Wadlow was 8’ 11.1” by the time he died at the young age of 22 in 1940. Today he still holds the Guinness World Record for the tallest man to ever live! Robert was born in Alton, Illinois on February 22, 1918 and I visited the River City along with my friends Annie […]