Locals often simply call it “The Soo.”  Ships know the place for the locks that help move them from one great lake to another.  The…

The ships here are moving so slowly, it’s sometime difficult to tell if they are in fact moving at all.  Yet hundreds of people will…

Before highways crisscrossed this nation, rivers often provided the best road to move cargo and passengers.  But some of those rivers had mighty obstacles to…

In the years following Columbus’ voyage to the new world, other Europeans followed, some with ideas of conquering native American nations and capturing the continents…

Some people enjoy tracing their family tree.  A few may even trace their ancestors back to the founding of the nation.  You may just be…

Visitors to Plymouth, Massachusetts are often fascinated with the history of the Pilgrims who landed here.  But some have a deeper connection to others to…

There is a very famous tunnel running beneath the surface of a barnyard in Meade, Kansas.  It was built in secret, but today it’s very…

The infamous Dalton Gang robbed individuals and businesses in the Midwest during the early 1890s.  But not all of the Dalton children had a life…

Human beings need to keep their body temperature close to 98 degrees in order to survive.  So finding an animal that can drop its core…

Animals that live in extreme cold of course have a heavy blanket of fur or hair to keep them warm.  But what animal has the…