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Defining Main Street: The Gas Station.  The "fillin' station" didn't hit Main Street until the 1920s. They were never in t...

Defining Main Street: The Drug Store. Some of us just cannot get used to calling them pharmacies or (if you are in England) chemists. So few...

What is the most produced staple crop in the world?  Corn . Don't yawn! Only a few decades ago rice held that honor. Think: the mega-pop...

It's proclaimed as Pony Express Home Station No. 1, but it was originally a barn and blacksmith shop. There were 40 home stations along ...

How do we honor our veterans? Here's another method : We build an honor wall of names, one plaque for every veteran in our town or count...

Some people still go to the post office to collect their mail. Others get it delivered to their homes, a service that was at one time availa...

Fall comes to the Great Plains. Today, in fact. It's the autumnal equinox. All over the Middle Latitudes trees and shrubs will be signin...

Representivng the Reptilian order of Testudines is the red-footed tortoise. They are native to South America. The red-footed tortoise is cla...

February is all about the number two, and 2/22 is a palindrome too! No one should have to tolerate a flat roof. Do something with it! Let it...

". . . the people of the Territory of Kansas . . . on the twenty-ninth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, did form...

In contrast to standard-issue street signs, the wayfinding aids in Ottawa deviate from the norm. They are not even near eye level: They are...

It's only a row of storefronts along the town's main street. What sets it apart? A passenger rail station that seems to serve no one...

It's only a row of storefronts along the town's main street. What sets it apart? A town clock . Every American town could be satisfi...

Centenarians demand respect! Ergo, the defunct Lanexa Grain and Feed Elevator, which was built in 1917, demands respect. The problem is that...

To revitalize downtown, Spring Hill relocated the old city jail from a city park to a position of prominence on one of the town's main s...

Some chains are international, some national, and some, like Dog N Shake, are local. Want to enjoy their chili cheese fries, you have to go ...

Here's the world's first Pizza Hut, but it's so perfectly put together it's hard to believe it was so handsome when it stood...

Cable-stayed bridges have become very popular since the 1990s, even for pedestrian crossings. But, the eye-catcher here is probably the Keep...

Only a few blocks away from the Westboro Baptist "Church" is the University United Methodist Church, with the rainbow colors of t...

Right across the street from the hate group Westboro Baptist "Church" stands the Equality House, proudly painted in the colors of...