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Alabama’s Beautiful Little Stone Church Built Around a Rock

by Linda Aksomitis | Sep 9, 2016

Imagine, if you can, an enormous sandstone rock plopped down in a forest–and someone deciding to build it into a pulpit and wrap a stone church around it. Sound a little crazy? Maybe. Milford Howard may not have been crazy, but he sure wasn’t an ordinary...

Dine at Kedhe’s BBQ in Sedalia, MO, in a 1920 Railroad Car

by Linda Aksomitis | Sep 5, 2016

In the 1920s there were 10 million cars in America, but train travel still provided most of us with our only opportunity to travel beyond our immediate communities. In fact, it was the golden age of train travel, with 260,000 miles of train tracks by 1930. Amazingly,...

DSRV Avalon — Pioneer of Submarine Rescue — Morro Bay, CA

by Linda Aksomitis | Aug 30, 2016

The USS Thresher atomic submarine was the first of a new class that could dive further beneath the ocean, and run quieter along the ocean floor, than any of the submarines that had come before it. Launched by the US on July 9, 1960, during the Cold War era, it...

Sigtuna is Home to Sweden’s Smallest Library — Can You Guess What it Used to Be? #TriviaTuesday

by Linda Aksomitis | Aug 23, 2016

Sigtuna, Sweden’s oldest city, is a gem hidden in the shadow of its much newer and larger cousin, Stockholm–the fastest growing city in Europe. Less than 50 km from Stockholm, Erik the Victorious established the town back in 970 AD. It’s in the...

Paul Bunyan, Snowmobiles, a Giant Chainsaw & More in Wisconsin #TriviaTuesday

by Linda Aksomitis | Aug 16, 2016

There are lots of surprises hiding between the trees in the Wisconsin Northwoods. In fact, one of my favorite heroes of traditional tall tales, Paul Bunyan, and his blue ox, were the first things I saw through the pines while driving into Sayner, Wisconsin. Question...

What Do Saskatchewan’s Herschel Petroglyphs Depict? #ExploreSask

by Linda Aksomitis | Aug 8, 2016

The native prairie habitat of the Great Plains of North America has been ripped up by the plow, and replaced by grain fields, through most of the continent, including Saskatchewan. However, Herschel, a small town nestled where the Coal Mine Ravine joins the Eagle...