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Category: Historical Travel

Museums, historical sites, historic figures

Agricultural / August 29, 2017

Voorhies Castle, a mansion on the Prairie

Set literally in the midst of the countryside south of Bement, Illinois is Voorhies Castle.  This strange, yet beautiful building was built by…

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Adventure Travel / August 23, 2017

Totality, a summary

The 2017 Solar Eclipse is going to go down in history as the event of a lifetime for this generation.  Someday, I think…

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Adventure Travel / August 19, 2017

Chasing the Sun, find your solar eclipse

Do you have your solar glasses, your chair, your sunscreen and bug spray and most of all the spot picked out to watch…

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Agricultural / August 17, 2017

The Stuttgart Tractor – remembering innovation

Don Oliver with the Stuttgart Tractor back in 1999.

It was 1999 when Dan Shima, a good friend and Minneapolis Moline collector told us about the winter convention in Stuttgart, Arkansas.  We…

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Agricultural / August 15, 2017

Glimpse of a statue, R.G. LeTourneau’s legacy – picture by Janna Seiz

Sometimes a statue can be a thought provoker and that is how it was with the statue of Robert Gilmour LeTourneau, better known…

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