The Mines of Butte
Butte’s Mining History As I plowed down the highway toward Butte, I turned through a cut in the hill and suddenly, before me was an excavation pit; a landscape that […]
Huckleberry Hound
I’ve never given thought to huckleberry. I’m not sure I ever realized it was a real berry. Though red and black raspberries, blackberries and mulberries once dominated the Ohio fields […]
Copper King Mansion B&B
Where to stay in Butte, Montana Look at this room: This is MY room! Isn’t it gorgeous?! You may be surprised to learn where you’ll find this gorgeous room. And […]
Chop Suey at Pekin Noodle Shop
Have you ever had chop suey? If you’re under 40, you’ve probably never even heard of it. When I was growing up, there were very few Chinese restaurants in my […]
Talk at the Harriet Beecher Stowe House
Ponder this: a roomful of people have congregated to discuss the issue of slavery and whether the slaveholders in the southern states of the U.S. were civil and humane. Some […]
Rookwood Pottery – A Piece of Cincinnati History
It was raining this afternoon, and the temperature dropped. It seemed like the perfect time to spend a few hours with my daughter-in-law on a Rookwood Pottery Tour. The tour […]
The Tri-State Warbird Museum
Just like the times I visited Dayton’s National Air Force Museum with my son, I knew I wanted to tour Cincinnati’s Tri-State Warbird Museum with him, too. I wanted to see […]
Cutting-Edge Cincinnati — Things That Happened Here First
1793 – First settlement to publish a newspaper. 1853 – First city to establish a municipal fire department and first firemen’s pole. 1865 – First train robbery in the U.S. […]
Airstream – (Hand)made in America
With Airstream, every day has a silver lining As soon as I approached the Airstream factory in Jackson Center, Ohio, all I saw was a field of silver glinting in […]
Shoot! Thinking Annie Oakley is from the Wild West is Way Off the Mark!
Born Phoebe Ann Moses, Annie Oakley’s persona is one of a Wild West American sharpshooter who could out-shoot any man. For the most part, that’s true, but Annie Oakley is […]
