On a recent hike at Greer Spring, in Oregon County, Missouri, we happened across a mill on a hill. It seemed an odd place to set a huge roller mill, and it looked as though it had been refurbished. We did the hike down to the spring, and drove back up the highway to the mill, parked and explored. It ...
Grant’s Missouri Trail in Reverse
“No, wait,” I said to my husband who was driving. “Take a left on Main Street, not a right.” We were in the process of retracing Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s Trail in reverse from Cape Girardeau to Ironton, working from a tour that I found online at the Cape Girardeau Tourism Bureau’s website. It’s ...
Wild Caving in the Ozarks
I love this story from a few years ago, when we went "wild caving" in the Ozarks with a bunch of teenagers. ~BB “Whoa!” laughed Alec as his 6-foot frame sunk up to his knees in cave muck. “This is cool.” Too late to turn back, our crew of cavers had entered the mudroom of Mushroom Cave. So we ...
On Wearing a Poopie Suit at Bennett Spring State Park
Where in the wide world of trout fishing is he?” I thought, as I trudged from one zone to the other in a pair of loaner waders that best can be described as a castoff, cut-up poopie suit from the Navy. I must have looked strange, peering at trout fishers in the spring branch at Bennett Spring State ...
Brandon Cornwell: He’s Got Maille
I met Brandon Cornwell about 15 years ago, while he was working on a Celtic chainmaille bracelet at Jacob's Cave gift shop. Today, he's moved on to different things, but this is a story about his life and work back then. ~BB To look at him, you would think he should be on a rugby team or maybe in ...
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