What better way to spend a lazy Sunday afternoon than an open house for friends and family? Our cousin’s son Ben Ladage along with his business partner David Ray just opened an auction house/reception hall. The hall is named Delray for Ben’s late grandfather Delmar Ladage and for David Ray. This is a partnership based […]
Last year we didn’t get to attend the Gateway Mid-America Toy Show and the transition from winter into spring wasn’t quite complete. This year will be the 35th show. which will be held on February 5-7, 2016 at the Sheraton Lakeside Chalet in St. Louis’s West Port Plaza. This year -Lord willing and the creek […]
This past weekend I was working on a story about pulling tucks and tractors at the National Farm Machinery Show for Farm World. I had the chance to interview a couple young women that pulled. Patricia Justison from the Hillsboro area (in the picture below with my brother-in-law Wayne) and Bethany Nelson from Altamont, Illinois. The interview […]
I am not quite sure what you would expect to find when viewing an old jail, but this castle like structure built in 1869 that served as the Macoupin County Jail is not it. This structure has the look of a fairytale fortress. Designed by E.E. Meyers the jail was built the Carlinville Chamber of Commerce says, “using the […]
The Chicago Travel & Adventure show is coming to the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont January 23-24, 2016. I had the chance to do a Q & A with John Golicz the founder of the Travel & Adventure show series to find out just what a visitor could gain by attending. “There will […]