I don’t recall where I bought Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey except to say that I’m sure it was on a trip out West. I am frequently inspired to buy books like this when I travel, but unfortunately they don’t always get cracked open. Well, for some reason, I recently took this off my [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Reading America: Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey
Posted in Uncategorized on September 30, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Reading America: Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey
Posted in Reading America, tagged Lillian Schlissel, pioneers, West, Westward expansion, Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey, women's history on September 30, 2009 | 10 Comments »
I don’t recall where I bought Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey except to say that I’m sure it was on a trip out West. I am frequently inspired to buy books like this when I travel, but unfortunately they don’t always get cracked open. Well, for some reason, I recently took this off my [...]
Focus on America's National Parks: Images of Yellowstone
Posted in Uncategorized on September 28, 2009 | 12 Comments »
It has finally arrived. Yesterday, the first episode of The National Parks: America’s Best Idea provided the best excuse in recent memory to avoid all to-dos, to step away from the musts, to ignore text messages and e-mails. The show began with a quote from John Muir: “Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places [...]
We Love Us an Oddball Museum
Posted in Kitsch Factor, tagged Alabama, Alabama Music Hall of Fame, Chattanooga, David Crosby, Eva Holland, Hank Williams, Henry Lee Lucas, Huntsville, International Towing and Recovery Museum, Leadbelly, Lionel Richie, Muscle Shoals, Nat King Cole, Old Sparky, Prisonopoly, Tennessee, Texas, Texas Prison Museum, The Temptations, tow trucks on September 25, 2009 | 12 Comments »
Met, shmet. Those fancy museum are fine, but Flyover Americans never met an oddball museum they didn’t love. So much so, we had trouble choosing among the gajillions we’ve visited. Today’s threefer guest writer is our buddy Eva Holland, senior editor of World Hum, swell writer, cool chick, and ’60s soul junkie, which explains her [...]
Plano's Beautiful Balloons
Posted in Uncategorized on September 22, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I had a little staycation this weekend (and I use the word just to annoy Jenna), spending a night in Plano, a suburb of Dallas, to attend the Plano Balloon Festival–and, not incidentally, to hang out with Jenna, who was in town for the same event and will tell you her side of the story [...]
Plano’s Beautiful Balloons
Posted in State-by-State, Uncategorized, tagged Balloon festival, cockroach hall of fame, hot air balloons, Plano, southfork, Texas, urban crust on September 22, 2009 | 5 Comments »
I had a little staycation this weekend (and I use the word just to annoy Jenna), spending a night in Plano, a suburb of Dallas, to attend the Plano Balloon Festival–and, not incidentally, to hang out with Jenna, who was in town for the same event and will tell you her side of the story [...]
Prairie Love
Posted in News Around the Nation, Outdoorsiness, State-by-State, tagged conservation, Homestead National Monument, Iowa, lesser prairie chicken, National Public Lands Day, Oklahoma, prairie, prairie restoration, Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, volunteering, Woodward on September 16, 2009 | 13 Comments »
No such thing as a bad photograph of the prairie. No, really. I’ve been prairie obsessed since visiting the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in Pawhuska, Okla., a year ago. Several months later, an hour tagging barbed wire fencing (as a favor to prairie chickens) in the Oklahoma panhandle convinced me that tromping across a prairie is [...]
