Author: Tom
If You Build It, They Will Come–Two Grand Hotels
In the movie “Field of Dreams”, a farmer builds a baseball field in the middle of his corn field. Perhaps the people in this southern Indiana town…
A Famous Front Porch
Many homes have a front porch. It can be a place to relax and simply enjoy the outdoors. In this town, it’s the hotel that has…
Trophies From the Game of Basketball
Most museums will put the artifacts behind glass, not to be touched. Sure it’s interesting to look, but it might seem a little stuffy. That’s…
The Birthplace of a Basketball Legend
Many of our towns and cities have people that we look up to. Perhaps they aren’t known to the rest of the world…or just maybe they…
The Birthplace of Stephen Douglas
Abraham Lincoln led the country through the Civil War, but it was this man who defeated him for the Senate two years earlier. We’ll go…
Keep Your Clothes On! Inside Gadsby’s Tavern
Imagine staying in a hotel that encouraged you to sleep with your clothes and shoes on so that you could make a quick escape in case…
A Tavern With a Rich History
Many of the homes and businesses in Alexandria, Virginia can trace their history to the founding of the nation. That’s true of one very important tavern. It…
El Cuartelejo
Near Kansas’ border with Colorado you can find a place called El Cuartelejo. It’s the ruins of an ancient home who’s occupants were on the run from…
Pueblo Dwellings in Kansas
In western Kansas you can find the foundations for an old Native American settlement. Perhaps that doesn’t seem too out of the ordinary, until you dig a…
A Natural Wonder of Kansas
It’s one of the natural wonders of Kansas. A place of white spires rising from the prairie plains that have been a landmark for centuries…
