You cannot visit the “City of Waltzes” without making it a point to listen to live music. We arrived in Vienna on day #2 of our Viking River cruise “Grand European Tour.” Actually, we arrived in the late afternoon, spending the morning on the sundeck of the good ship Bragi, watching as castles and ...
Viking River Cruise Day #1: Budapest
There we stood, on the banks of the Danube in the city of Budapest. And there sat our ship, the Viking Bragi, about 25 yards away from us in the river. “I didn’t realize we’d have to swim for it,” said my husband. So, after a phone call to Viking’s 800 number, and an appearance of yet another cruise ...
Missouri Place Names On and Near Hwy. 32
My friend loves to snoop around in old graveyards and consequently, she wrote the book on cemeteries in Maries County. She told me that her husband said, “You know, they’re burying people behind you.” It was a circuitous path she had taken, trying to keep track of the tombstones in the county. In ...
Bonnie and Clyde in Joplin
After watching the Netflix movie “The Highwaymen” last spring, I embarked on a self-guided course to learn more about the notorious criminals from the 1930s, Bonnie and Clyde. The movie portrayed a few things incorrectly. Several authors of biographies surrounding the infamous pair embellished the ...
Artist Mary Lou Corn’s Sculpture Garden
This is a retro Ozarkian, from 2003, when I worked as managing editor at the weekly newspaper in St. James, Missouri, and interviewed popular watercolor artist Mary Lou Corn. Imagine my delight, now in 2019, to discover that she is still painting. Local watercolor artist Mary Lou Corn stands with ...
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