I’ve been reading a lot of local histories lately. As I come across stories that get my attention, I'll share them with you, like this one from Potosi, Wisconsin. During the pioneer years in Potosi, brothers Samuel and Henry Redman were ornery cusses. They lived in Dutch Hollow, a German community that began life as
In 1918, the United States government bought 13,000 acres of sand prairie next to the Mississippi River as a site to test artillery. In short order, the Savanna Proving Grounds boomed to life with the firing of 75mm and 155mm howitzers. After WWI, warehouses were built to store ammunition, and Savanna Ordnance Depot was born.
We just got back from a very relaxing four days and three nights in Cancun. That’s in Mexico, in case you weren’t sure. Even if you’ve been there, you may not have realized that you were in Mexico. You need about as much Spanish as you would to visit that Mexican restaurant down the street from
I have remained a baseball fan virtually all of my life, even as I have grown weary of the changes in the Major League game – few players who stick with one team for their careers, owners who bilk every last cent out of the fans who bother to show up, and the increasing separation
"When Pangu, the ancestor of all things, died, his head turned into Mount Tai, his belly turned into the Central Mountain, his left arm turned into the South Mountain, his right arm turned into the North Mountain and his feet turned into the West Mountain. Mount Tai thus has become the head of all mountains."
