Stuff in the Basement

  Stephen A. Ambrose says, in Undaunted Courage , that the Fourth of July on the Missouri River began with shooting off "the canon....

  "When you get to the visitor's center, check out the blue dress--it belonged to Judy's great-grandma," she told me, refe...

[Just a little more on Dr. Saville, the Civil War doctor buried in Sioux City's Floyd Cemetery--see yesterday's post.] There'd b...

Just for the record, we spent our anniversary this year in an ancient Sioux City cemetery. Seriously. As anniversaries go, we've done we...

  “Do not fret because of evil men  or be envious of those who do wrong. . .”   The only fret I have is whether or not I do enough frett...

It's a used car, not new, but it's our new car, as distinguished from our old Subaru. This one is a cherry red Buick, and it's b...

The longest American river isn't all that far away. I've been playing around in its history for years now, developing stories from i...