The beautiful Velie Monocoupe, a Moline legacy
If you like stories about planes and automobiles, you will like this one! Rex Cherrington, a historian from the Galesburg area had a…
Category: Historical Travel
Museums, historical sites, historic figures
Remembering Martin Luther King
I can’t say I went to any ceremony or event in the Civil Right Leader’s honor, but I did think about him and…
The Old Lincoln Courtroom & Museum, where Lincoln’s Almanac Trial Took Place
It was a day where we were without jobs so Keith and I headed to Beardstown to see the Old Lincoln Courthouse &…
A Ride in a C47 at the Yankee Air Museum!
So, I got to go on a ride in the Douglas C-47 Skytrain named Yankee Doodle Dandy! As one of a group of…
The Historic Arkansas Museum, insight into the Arkansas Frontier
I’m always ready to go see a historic village and wanted to stop at the Historic Arkansas Museum, from the moment I spied…