Horseshoe Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area, near Miller City, Illinois (photo taken Oct 2012).
Best of the Upper Mississippi: Dining with a View
25 places with good views and good food from the Headwaters to St. Louis
Destination of the Day: Weird Harolds
Weird Harold’s is the kind of store that reminds you of what you’re missing when you shop at the mall. Spread over two floors of a century-old building in downtown Burlington, Iowa, Weird Harold’s is perhaps best known for their collection of 50,000+ vinyl LPs but they also sell music recorded on cassettes and CDs [...]
Song of the Day: Waist Deep in the Big Muddy
Still June, still signing about mud. Pete Seeger, one of the most influential musicians in the past half century, wrote Waist Deep in the Big Muddy in 1967, a thinly disguised criticism of the war in Vietnam. He debuted the song on a Smothers Brothers show, but network executives stepped in and had it cut [...]
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