The Magic of the Music Man in Mason City Iowa
My friend Sara Broers of Travels With Sara, had told me that her home town of Mason City Iowa was the birthplace of…
Category: Historical Travel
Museums, historical sites, historic figures
Stumbling on the Lewis Round Barn Museum
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…
Staybridge Inn & Suites, the perfect Mother’s Day Getaway!
So, when I was on the Hendrick’s County press trip a while back, I won this awesome Girls Getaway package at the Staybridge…
The Beautiful Surf Ballroom!
History The original Surf Ballroom was built-in 1934 by Carl J. Fox. Sadly the original ballroom burned April 1947, but the next ballroom…
Alton’s Gentle Giant turns 100
Robert Pershing Wadlow was 8’ 11.1” by the time he died at the young age of 22 in 1940. Today he still holds…