My aunt once told me, “Your family has a thing about going out to cemeteries. It’s morbid.” The older I get, the more I think she is right on one count and dead wrong on the other. Yes, I have a thing about sleuthing about in old cemeteries, especially searching for folk art, but this fascination ...
Debo McKinney Hates Otters and Loves Hardware
America suffers from the demise of the small town hardware store. Although there are those who would argue that Wal Mart and the home improvement chain stores employ more folks than Mom ‘n Pop stores do, they would have to agree that the atmosphere and sense of community that comes with small town ...
Lincoln on Lincoln at Lincoln
“All my life I’ve lived under the handicap of having people say, ‘You look like the homeliest man in Illinois,’” said Cranston “Bud” Green, an Abraham Lincoln presenter from Versailles, Mo. Green, who appeared in costume last February on the campus of Lincoln University in Jefferson City, spent ...
More Swinging Bridges in Miller County
Madison County in Iowa has its covered bridges, made famous by James Wallers’ novel, “The Bridges of Madison County.” Miller County in Missouri lays claim to six swinging bridges. According to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Missouri has only12 swinging suspension bridges left. In Miller County, ...
The Swinging Bridges of Miller County
“This would not be good place to take a little kid,” said my son as he gingerly stepped over huge holes in weathered boards on an old swinging suspension bridge. The bridge spans Auglaize Creek in Miller County, so it’s called the Auglaize Bridge. This was the first of Missouri's swinging bridges we ...
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