by Linda Aksomitis | Apr 1, 2017
Relax and Have Fun at Prison Brews Brewpub in Jefferson City, Missouri Found in Missouri’s historic district, just two blocks from the old Missouri State Penitentiary, Prison Brews provides the perfect opportunity to break out of the ordinary and have some fun!...
by Linda Aksomitis | Mar 13, 2017
Clint Eastwood launched his acting career in 1959 when the television show, Rawhide, turned the cattle drives of the mid-1800s into a hit series that ran for eight seasons with 200+ episodes. And Sedalia, MO, was the historical cowtown destination with its stockyards...
by Linda Aksomitis | Jan 27, 2017
Chocolate unites the world! So we’ll all be celebrating together on January 27, National Chocolate Cake Day, when you combine two of my favorite things: chocolate and cake. Cake, according to the food timeline, had its first recorded recipe in 1615 in the New...
by Linda Aksomitis | Oct 25, 2016
The 1920s era was full of glitz and glam. Women got flapper dresses and the vote, washing machines and the diaphragm. The first radio station blasted out songs in Pittsburg in 1920, and within three years 500 stations across the nation had joined this entertainment...
by Linda Aksomitis | Oct 4, 2016
Time travel–the idea baits us, tantalizes our imaginations, and hooks us on the possibilities. While authors spun yarns about time travel before H.G. Wells, his book, The Time Machine, and its popularity, made dreaming about traveling around in time something...
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,...
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Butch Cassidy Museum — Old West Wild Bunch Outlaws in Montpelier, IDThe Butch Cassidy Museum is situated in Montpelier, Idaho. It's housed in the original Bank of Montpelier Bank where Butch pulled his 2nd bank robbery.
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Hill Aerospace Museum — Hundreds of Planes from WWI to the Cold WarThe Hill Aerospace Museum at Ogden, Utah, just a few miles from Salt Lake City, is a must-see free attraction with hundreds of airplanes and artifacts.
Wabasha Street Caves & their Prohibition Secrets — Saint Paul, MNSaint Paul, Minnesota, history includes Prohibition gangsters and speakeasies including the Wabasha Street Caves. See "Castle Royal" or take a driving tour.
How to Visit Europe on a Budget Without Backpacks or HostelsTravel tips on how to visit Europe on a Budget - Krakow is one of the cheapest and has many free sights in its UNESCO heritage site of Old Town.