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, ...
Memorial Day Remembrance: Josh Steele
My boys knew their boy. They were college fraternity brothers together. And then, the word came. Josh was gone. Killed by an IED in Afghanistan while serving in the Army. It is on this Memorial Day weekend that I think, especially, of Josh SteeleMy grown sons who had known Josh so well came back ...
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