Road Trip Through History
Road Trip Through History: The Things We Missed on the Great River Road, Part 2
For those of you who are coming in late, My Own True Love and I recently took a week-long road trip along the northern leg of the Great River Road along the Mississippi River. We drove north to the river’s headwaters in Lake Itasca and then worked our way south to the Minnesota-Iowa border, stopping…
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Road Trip Through History: Crow Wing State Park and the Red River Ox Cart Trail (with a brief aside on ghost towns)
My Own True Love and I almost didn’t stop at Crow Wing State Park. It was late on a dreary afternoon. We’d had a long history nerd day already. And it wasn’t entirely clear that there would be anything to see. But all the (very vague) descriptions of the park said it was the site…
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Road Trip Through History: Lake Itasca State Park and the Civilian Conservation Corps
If you’ve spent any time in state or national parks in the United States, you have undoubtedly seen buildings constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) during the Depression— rustic lodges and cabins that are as distinctive as the public art produced by the Works Progress Administration during the same period. The CCC was one…
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