Note: This story is from my book Highway History And Back Road Mystery II. While we usually think of southern states when we think of Civil War battles, Missouri was actually a hotly contested state and saw many bloody skirmishes. While not the largest battle fought on Missouri soil, one of the most vicious was […]
Note: This story is from the March-April, 2017 issue of the Gypsy Journal. In the friendly college town of Athens, Georgia we came across an unusual historical artifact with an interesting history that is a classic example of engineering gone wrong, even though it seemed like a good idea at the time Home to the […]
There is so much to see here in Gettysburg that it would take weeks to cover it all. We don’t have weeks, so yesterday we crammed as much time in playing tourist as we could. We toured the battlefield during our previous visit a few years ago, so yesterday we spent several hours at the […]