If you drive by the old Derby Station on East James Boulevard, in St. James, Mo., you can’t miss it. A big birdhouse sits in front of it on a post surrounded by herbs and perennials. The old gas station is now a flea market busting at the seams with treasures found and created by Cathy Warren, a ...
Learning the Art of Divining
Last year a guy from St. James named Dennis Wilson told me that his father, Ira Wilson, could find graves with a divining rod. When I asked Ira Wilson about this, he admitted that even though he was at first skeptical about the practice of divining, or as some folks call it—dowsing, he is now a ...
A Visit to the Rolla Antique Mall
It's always an education to visit an antiques shop with my mom. On this special day, I not only went to the Rolla Antique Mall with my mom, but also my mother-in-law tagged along. Here's the story. “So, the wringer could be used one direction and then the other?” I asked. “Yes,” said my mother, “And ...
Cape Girardeau in the Summer
Where I revisit a summertime trip to Cape Girardeau ...Putt and swat. Wipe the sweat and swat. Putt some more . . . That was the sequence last summer while my family and I worked our way around what seemed like an endless trail of little mounds with garden gnomes at the local driving/goofy golf ...
Going to the Devil in Missouri
You can go to the Devil in Missouri in at least 80 places. From up high on a Devil’s Backbone to below the earth’s surface in the Devil’s Well, geological formations named after Lucifer abound. A former state geologist and University of Missouri-Rolla professor, the late Thomas R. Beveridge, ...
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