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Frozen In Concrete: Kansas And The Ice Age

Thursday, May 24th, 2012

Memorable monuments are sometimes a marriage of a home-grown visionary and a town willing to go along with a crazy idea. And that’s what’s happened in Blue Rapids.

Nut Title Regained by Texas – It Took 30 Years

Sunday, April 29th, 2012

1982 was a rough year for Seguin, Texas — the year that it lost bragging rights as the Home of the World’s Largest Pecan.

Welcome Back, Tacoma’s Unwelcome Goddess

Wednesday, September 14th, 2011

Gods are notoriously fickle, but so are their human constituencies.

Valley Of The Giants: Empire State Big

Monday, August 29th, 2011

Two visionary women want to transform a sleepy region of upstate New York into a tourist destination known as “The Valley of the Giants.”

U.K. Loves Reagan. G.W. Bush…Not So Much

Sunday, August 7th, 2011

WorldTourWatch: A statue of Ronald Reagan was unveiled in London, England’s Grosvenor Square on July 4th.

Seven Years Away, Johnstown’s Best Friend Comes Home

Sunday, August 7th, 2011

If Morley’s Dog had a proper name, it washed away along with everything else in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, when a dam burst and destroyed the city in 1889.

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