We’ve all been to museums, but have you ever been to one were you needed to put on a boot and raincoat? It?s a unique museum that is teaching us a lot about how we like to learn…..
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Michelangelo had a very large canvass when he began work on the Sistine chapel. Make a trip to this river town and you’ll find a man who had two and a half blocks of canvass to fill, and his results are also very impressive……
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When you pull in the drive at the Lance farm, you might expect to see cattle or horses. But a closer look reveals a variety like that about Noah’s Ark. It’s a new business that allows visitors to see, touch and feed exotic animals…..
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Civil War engineers were simply running out of names, but that doesn’t mean the forts here were not important. It’s a place where the Union troops simply named their forts for the letters of the alphabet…..
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All this week, we’ll be in Cape Girardeau, Missouri–the place where the river turns a thousand tales. We begin with one of the most photographed sites in all of Missouri…..
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As you may know, we do all of our stories from the actual location where they occur. While we did travel to this town, our computer ate the interview sometime after the broadcast, but that didn’t keep us from getting John Holtzclaw on the phone to talk about the 600 civil war troops that will soon arrive in his hometown…..
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If you go to Vincennes, Indiana this weekend, there’s a good chance you’ll meet a clown. Actually, there’s a chance you might meet one thousand of them…..
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History on this continent is young when compared to places like Europe, but that mentality is to forget about the centuries people lived here before the first Anglos arrived. Today, we look at clues to what life was like in North America long before Columbus…..
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Ever dream of owing your own railroad? Well, now you have the next best thing–you can rent a railroad for you and your friends and family and have the engineer take you on the mile long tracks…..
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Today we welcome our listeners on 1230 KWIX in Moberly, MO. To visit the radio station there, you’ll need to cross the busy railroad tracks. As many residents can tell you, its those tracks and the unique geography here that built this city…..
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In over 15 years of traveling the countryside, we have yet to feature an attraction from my hometown, the place I went to school, the school district where I still reside. So on the occasion of King City, Missouri’s 150th birthday celebration, I declare to you that while we don’t have the biggest gas prices in the nation, we do have the biggest gas pump…..
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New York City as the Empire State building, Seattle the Space Needle and for many years, King City, Missouri had a tombstone. It shows how times have changed when it was a tombstone that was part of the skyline that one could see for miles, and it really tells us a lot about the settling of the Midwest…..
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Collecting and selling sports memorabilia can be big business. John Baker ended up in it somewhat by accident and the stories he has to tell ranger from Hall of Fame stars to the owner of one very special wiffle ball bat…..
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Many of us have enjoyed picking up a ball and glove and playing catch. Now image picking up a ball and glove and finding out it’s worth several hundred dollars…..
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In the early days of auto building, hundreds of car makers battled for their own slice of the pie. With limited resources and few good roads, one of the biggest hurdles was just finding a place to test a new model…..
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In 1779, soldiers of the American Revolution set foot here to capture lands for the new United States. Over two centuries later, the revolutionaries are still arriving…..
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Today we head west of the Mississippi River to the state of Illinois. Yes, that’s west…..
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The Liberty Bell tolled for freedom in Philadelphia…or was it really in the State of Illinois?
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Roll back the clock 250 years and this city’s population might rival some of the largest towns on the east coast–yet it was in the middle of then Midwestern wilderness…..
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Today the town of Powhatan is nearly a ghost town. However, it’s buildings have been preserved and the stories of its glory days still abound. We head to the place were the delta meets the Ozarks…..;
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