Travel
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Exploring the Fascination with Cemeteries
Death, it seems to surround some of us, and then there are those of us who have seen the backside of death. By that I mean that we are the ones who are left behind and have to make sense of the deaths of the people we have known all these years. But that is…
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Lincoln and Ann Rutledge: A Love Story Uncovered
Every once in a while it is nice to read something that does not pertain to history, but that is the thing, we all need just a little bit of history to help us to remember that the people back in time were also human. Often we elevate people from history, and we do not…
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The Serene Life Beyond the Battlefield.
There are times that we do not take the time to really praise and honor the people we care and love. As I thought that I would take the time to stop and honor those who have gone before and those who are those who gave up everything, all in an effort to give to…
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Did Someone Really Try to Steal Lincoln’s Body?
There is a reason that Lincoln’s body lay in a vault that is 10 feet below where his grave stone is, and that there is nothing but concrete between the gravestone and the vault, but what is the story that we can learn about this odd grave setup, and why is it important to United…
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Civil War Fortifications: Learning from the Past
There, just a few blocks from downtown Cape Girardeau, lay a hidden history gem, it is John Wesley Powell’s Historic Fort D, and the story that it has to share, it can unlock all sorts of things that so many never take the time to learn.