Prairie Bluestem

Wetzels,  Zanes, and the Ohio River Betty Zane's run with the gunpowder Image from Wikipedia . When I was a child, we had the bo...

Learning to work Two nights in a row last week as I drove home, I followed this tractor pulling two trailers of square bales with a ro...

1840s at Fort Scott, Kansas We visited the national historic site at Fort Scott, Kansas, last week on our way back to Kentucky. I wanted...

Mighty cold Finally, it has arrived -- the blast of cold weather we've been reading, hearing, and thinking about for the last week. Th...

And a vintage sign removed... This photo was taken in 2006. Mr. Crawford's parents had operated a little country store in our neig...