Shipwreck Lore on the Florida Keys
Who isn’t fascinated by buried or sunken treasure? I surely am. As a child I loved to search for treasure and as an…
Category: Historical Travel
Museums, historical sites, historic figures
The Hemingway House, a Key West Legend
Ernest Hemingway is an Illinois Boy. Years ago, I went by his boyhood home in Oak Park, but didn’t have time to stop. …
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…
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 &…