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adminMichael Bushnell Publisher This week’s historic postcard is a companion piece to our Remember This column that features Reddy Kilowatt, the advertising mascot for the Kansas City Power and Light…
adminMichael Bushnell Publisher Trans World Airlines launched its first jet service on January 25, 1959, between New York-Idlewild and San Francisco. The route was chosen by TWA’s then-President Howard Hughes…
adminMichael Bushnell Publisher When Isaac “Ike” Katz was 13 years old, he quit school and went to work for the Great Northern Railway selling newspapers to help support his family…
adminMichael Bushnell Publisher Who’s always smiling, never sad? It’s Whizzo! Who makes the boys and girls so glad, Whizzo. He’s a merry fellow with a big red shiny nose, dressed…
adminMichael Bushnell Publisher The congregation of the Independence Boulevard Christian Church (IBCC) was established in 1886 and by the turn of the 20th century, its expanding membership was quickly outgrowing…
adminMichael Bushnell Publisher Gateway Arch National Park is a roughly 91-acre national park located on the original site of what were some of St. Louis’s oldest buildings, including the Old…
adminMichael Bushnell Publisher Nestled in a valley just to the north of Colorado’s Sangre de Cristo mountain range in Southern Colorado on the eastern edge of the San Luis Valley…
adminMichael Bushnell Publisher This week our National Park tour takes us to Everglades National Park at the Southern tip of Florida. The park itself protects roughly 1.5 million acres of…
adminMichael Bushnell Publisher Straddling the border between North Carolina and Tennessee, Great Smoky Mountains National Park encompasses over 520,000 acres, including the Smoky and Blue Ridge Mountains that are home…
adminHot Springs National Park was officially designated as a national park on March 4, 1921, but was recognized as the Hot Springs Reservation in April of 1832. It was the…
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