Stuff in the Basement

Looks pastoral enough, don't you think? Well, looks can deceive, as they say. The whole business starts a day's travel away. A cow, ...

So the man who "discovered" it, some say-- discover being a deceptive word right here--was, historians say, Robert Stuart, a Scot...

A couple of weekends ago, for a couple of hours along the Union Pacific lines, I couldn't help being astounded by clockwork and the shee...

Let me explain. That BNSF engine is pushing, not pulling, hundreds of empty cars-- pushing . Way, way, way up front--you can't see it--a...

  She remembers sitting up on the wagon and hearing the cobs bang, remembers horses going  up the field pretty much on their own as Ma and P...

“If you have faith as small as a mustard seed,  you can say to this mulberry tree,  Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’  and it will obey y...

Your German may be better than mine. Take a shot, but I'll tell you that all of this translates into a request from a WWII German soldie...

"It was a test," he told me, after pulling me aside. "It's a story I thought you'd like, a story I wanted to tell you...

Here's what I was thinking one Saturday morning 13 years ago. Yesterday, I stood in the heart of what Iowan's call a section of lan...

Among the Natives of the region, it was a hot spot, a greatly famous landmark thought to be inhabited--well, haunted really--by odd, little ...

Pride brings a person low,   but the lowly in spirit gain honor.   Proverbs 29:23 A famous 16th century woodcut  by Pieter Brueghel, one of ...

  Listen, this is Believe It or Not stuff. But first an old story you might have heard. There's a guy, an old soldier maybe, some poor s...

  Found it.  Here 'tis--the rightfully proud stone of Lieut. G. P. Cather. Here lies a hero.  His wife wanted his remains here, in the S...