A lone Amish buggy trots near Platteville, Wisconsin on Father's Day 2009. Since the year 2000 hundreds of Amish families have moved f...

On Sunday, June 21, a convoy retracing the 1919 transit of military vehicles on the Lincoln Highway pulled into Cedar Rapids, Iowa for the n...

Just to the east of Platteville, Wisconsin is a rise of land off the prairie with a gigantic white "M" on it, facing to the west...

A visible sign of the nation's economic health can be seen within a city block of each other in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. For several months ...

Update from December 30, 2008 post: Each year around Independence Day the small private airport located in Marion, Iowa hosts the fly-in...

Placed in a lot box of old mason jars at a recent auction in Raymond, Iowa was this ancient-looking battery or coil housing. Clearly the For...

Basically the translation of verse 11 of chapter 38 is 'stop right here and go no further.' Silas did not accept that notion but Sis...

A fast moving line of freight cars trekked through Raymond, Iowa on Sunday, afternoon June 7th. Led by two locomotives from the BNSF (Burl...

About a year ago this miniature Statue of Liberty was up to her heels in Cedar River flood water on May's Island in Cedar Rapids, Iowa ...

Though not quite an ossuary annex, this fixture located at the heart of 42N country certainly holds one of its Renaissance church counterpa...

( top and bottom original photo source: NASA ) The Viking 1 orbiter photographed the so-called Face on Mars on July 25, 1976 while performi...

Since 1955 two identical white marble statues of lions guard the entrance to the Masonic Grand Lodge of Iowa in 42N country. A mid-afterno...

The remembrance of Amercian war dead is celebrated annually as Memorial Day . One of the many ways in 42N country that the sacrifice is r...

A Missouri Pacific Lines caboose is on display at the 1905 train depot in Lee's Summit, Missouri . The caboose is the only rail car on ...