Saturday, August 29, 2020

Head Over to Your Local Mom and Pop Record Store Today. It Is RECORD STORE DAY!!

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I'm sure you have a favorite local mom and pop record store.  I sure do.  That would be The Vinyl Frontier in McHenry, Illinois, and in...

Along 66, May 2020: Those Funny Grizzly Bear Cubs in Arizona and Looting at the Historic Central Camera Store in Chicago

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MAY 29--  Bearizona takes in three grizzly bear cubs from Montana.  Their mother was killed.  Make sure to watch the video on You Tube ...
Thursday, August 27, 2020

Along 66, May 2020: That Ski Lodge in Daggett. The Virus and the Road

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MAY 26--  Ski Lodge Roof House in Daggett, California, will be converted back into a visitors center.  It is in a really neat-looking old b...

Along 66, May 2020:Tulsa, Kingman and International Tourists

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Not that I am running a bit behind on this, but, I am way behind. These are from the Route 66 News site which has all the stuff you could...
Wednesday, August 26, 2020

Buying Those CDs and Record Store Day This Saturday, August 29

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My last two trips southward from home to Algonquin, Illinois, enabled me to go to a favorite store and that would be Half-Price Books.  Thi...
Monday, August 24, 2020

Back to My 20.4 Mile Road Trip-- Part 4: Hitting the Garden Centers

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Like I said, this was the farthest I had drive from home since the coronavirus hit and Illinois closed down back on March 17, 2020. Munch...
Sunday, August 23, 2020

Back to My 20.4 Mile Road Trip-- Part 3: A Slidering I Go

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July 25, 2020. Back on Randall Road driving northward for the next place I really like. And that meant all the traffic and all the constr...
Friday, August 21, 2020

Back to My 20.4 Mile Road Trip in July-- Part 2: Half-Price Books

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After the McHenry County Civil War Round Table discussion group meeting ended I drove to my favorite store these days.  It is located about...
Thursday, August 20, 2020

Back to My 20.4 Mile Road Trip in July-- Part 1

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July 25, I drove a whopping 20.4 miles (well actually a bit farther since I initially missed the meeting location and went a ways south bef...
Sunday, August 16, 2020

Other Southern State Flags With Confederate Elements-- Part 2: Alabama, Arkansas and Florida Tennessee?)

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ALABAMA, 1895 The St. Andrew's cross is a widely used  symbol, so the use on the Alabama flag might be a mere coincidence.  However, ...
Thursday, August 13, 2020

Other Southern State Flags That Resemble the Confederate Flag: Mississippi and Georgia-- Part 1

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From the July 1, 2020, CNN  "Mississippi changing its flag isn't the end  of Confederate symbols on state flags" by A.J. Will...
Saturday, August 8, 2020

The Boy Scouts' Statue of Liberty Campaign-- Part 3: Even Three in Illinois

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I see there are remaining existing Boy Scout Statue of Liberty statues in Birmingham, Alabama, and Richmond, Virginia.  Sure hope those wil...
Thursday, August 6, 2020

The Boy Scouts' "Strengthen the Arm of Liberty" Campaign-- Part 2

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The copper statues were manufactured by Friedley-Voshardt Co. of Chicago, Illinois,  and could be purchased through the Kansas City Boy Sco...
Tuesday, August 4, 2020

The Boy Scouts' "Strengthen the Arm of Liberty" Campaign-- Part 1

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Yesterday I wrote about the Boy Scouts and their placement of many Statue of Liberty copies in the United States.  I'd never heard of t...
Monday, August 3, 2020

Along 66, May 2020: Boy Scout Statues of Liberty Across America in the 1950s

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MAY 20--  Statue of Liberty replicas have own history.  They are 8 1/2 feet tall and were installed in 200 towns across the United States i...