Route 66 is full of pieces of Americana, and in Central Illinois you’ll find a drive-in over 65 years old, and customers traveling from other continents just to experience it…..
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It’s been 150 years since Abraham Lincoln was President, but you can still visit with him and get his thoughts about everything from politics to his favorite foods to eat…..
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This week we’re in Springfield, Illinois–of course any stop here likely includes the Abraham Lincoln presidential library. It’s a place where technology and a few “ghosts” combine to bring visitors a presidential experience unmatched in the nation…..
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Many of us remember the struggle of learning to ride a bike as a kid. Eventually we mastered it, and perhaps we’re still riding today. Jed didn’t have the luxury of learning on a bike with two wheels though. What happened next put him on the side of a mountain is a new sport with only half a bike……
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If you lived without electricity–either by choice or simply because of the location you lived–where would you go to find modern conveniences that didn’t need kilowatts to make them run? There’s a good chance you’d come here. It’s the shopping mall for those who don’t use electricity so to speak…..
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If you’re going to do well in business you have to stay up with the times. But for Jay Lehman, doing the exact opposite in a sense has been his family’s route to success…..
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The Wright Brothers made their first flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. However, it was the farmers around Dayton, Ohio that helped them perfect the plane. Those farmers pastures where they trained were full of dangers…..
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Although Kitty Hawk, North Carolina received most of the attention regarding the Wright Brothers first flight, it was this Ohio city were much of the work took place before and after that inaugural mission. It’s a place where Orville Wright was skipping school at the age of six for what he thought was a very good reason…..
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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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