Posts Tagged ‘Road Trip Through History’
From the Archives: The So-Called Black Hawk Wars
Normally when one of my posts refers to circumstances that I wrote about in the past, I simply put a hot link in the new post referring any readers who are interested back to the old post, with no assurance that anyone other than My Own True Love will click through. But the Black Hawk…
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Road Trip Through History: The German-American Heritage Center and Museum
My Own True Love and I might well have stopped at the German-American Heritage Center and Museum in Davenport, Iowa, for its building alone. The museum is housed in a building that was originally the “Germania”, a Gast Haus for German immigrants. Built in 1870, the Germania was one of the earliest of many…
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Back on the Great River Road: First Stop, the John Deere Historic Site
My Own True Love and I are back on the Great River Road! For those of you who are new to the Margins: In November, 2015, My Own True Love and I set out on an adventure. We headed south for a three-week trip along the Great River Road, a conglomeration of 3000 miles of…
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