Behind the Indiana Military Museum in Vincennes, Indiana, visitors can walk through a replica of the fighting trenches of Europe used ...

Before the WWII battleship (now a museum) of the same name, the USS Iowa name was first bestowed to a new class of war fighting ships ove...

For 57 years (on December 18th) Burlington Northern's locomotive 3006 has sat idle at the Galesburg, Illinois depot. After completing...

Yesterday while searching for arrowheads at nearby Indian Creek in southeast Cedar Rapids, I found this item sticking out of the creek be...

This bee has no problem with a snootful of goldenrod pollen. During these last few weeks of summer the goldenrod is in full bloom around ...

A total solar eclipse is something to behold. I have seen partial solar eclipses and thought highly of them, especially if the foreground...

What a spectacular event! A total solar eclipse is something that everyone should experience. At a well planned, town hosted site in Fairm...

On top of the hill at Marshalltown's Iowa Veterans Home is a huge lawn decorated with war monuments, mature shade trees and war relic...

Photo assignment - snap anything outdoors. So I headed north and found a male elk watching over his herd at the Alexander Wildlife Area a...

The closing down of a partnership for all the world to see is documented in this letter from three Beatles to the lawyer of the fourth Be...

What hasn't been written about the Beatles? One of the items on display in the touring Beatles exhibit featured at Davenport's ...

This is what the day after Christmas looks like at the Stone's River National Battlefield in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Seven months a...

A street performer in downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee sings a two verse song during a recent visit. I can't really understand his ...

A big draw for this Midwesterner is visiting any Civil War battlefield. In this case the reward is spending time in the Stones River Na...