Author: Tom
How A Bankruptcy Benefitted Atlanta
Never was the bankruptcy of a circus so fortuitous to a city. Not only did they pick up what would become a major attraction, they…
A Large Wall For a Campaign Poster
It began life as a campaign poster, although you would have to have one very large wall to ever hang it. However, this elaborate painting…
The Jolly Green Giant
Just about all of us have seen a picture of the Jolly Green Giant. But have you ever seen what the back of the Jolly…
A Reason to Stop Off Interstate 90
An interstate can help connect a town to others, but it may also provide a way for motorists to zip by a place without stopping…
A Place That’s a Little Peculiar
Not all of us can live in a normal place. While most of the nation lives in cities that aren’t that far from average…there is…
An Italian Settlement Along the Gulf Shores
Some cities or regions are known for the nationalities of the people who settled there. But this perhaps seems a bit out of place –…
A Tree with Notoriety
The resort was a place that saw entertainers of the day stop and provider performances…Alfred says even President Millard Fillmore was a guest here. In…
The Captain Who Needed Some Water
Did you ever visit a location and say to yourself, “I wish I could live here.” That’s in a since what happened to the captain…
Surviving a Blizzard on Christmas Candy
There are tales of locusts that consumer the crops and a blizzard so bad that a man had to hunker down in a cave and…
The Dugout on Plumb Creek
Early pioneers sometimes did not have the means or resources to build a house on the prairie. They instead created something called a dugout. This…
