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87Clark Tower in Winterset Iowa's City Park
Clark Memorial Tower at the far edge of Winterset Iowa's City Park is dedicated to Madison County pioneers Caleb and Ruth Clark. But who were the Clarks? What did they do to warrant erecting the crenelated tower of a medieval castle in their honor?
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85Topeka's Rochester Cemetery and the horror movie "Carnival of Souls"
The 1962 indie horror movie "Carnival of Souls" was a "sleeper" until the 1980s when it was elevated to cult status after it began appearing in indie theaters and on late night TV. This hub is about the Lawrence KS indie film company and people who put the story on the small screen in the first place.
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83How To Grow a Sturdy Family Tree
A sturdy, full-grown family tree can't be purchased at your local nursery or tree farm, nor will a family history "sapling" reach its full height overnight. The process, however, for getting either to develop into a specimen that can withstand the test of time is much the same: nurturing over many years.
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83Topeka's Rochester Cemetery: More Than the Ghost of Albino Woman
Topeka's Rochester Cemetery has been a favorite of ghost hunters and Halloween thrill seekers since at least 1967. They come here hoping to see the infamous Albino Woman who roams the cemetery as well as the surrounding neighborhood, supposedly searching for her lost child. But Rochester Cemetery is much more than the home of a famous ghost.
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84Bessie Bruford's Incredible Journey to Witch Creek
"Witch Creek" was the name given to the October 2007 wildfire that began on a ridge between Witch Creek CA and San Ysabel, 5 miles to the east. But a different sort of fire...and of much longer duration...blazed in those hills in the 1890s, fed by the love of Bessie Bruford and a Scotsman named James Wood.
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71Gay Guys Are A Girl's Best Friend
I once worked at a cube farm across from two openly gay hunks. The more outgoing and gregarious one was always surrounded by female co-workers at breaks and lunch, causing irritation and befuddlement among straight male employees who never "got" why women would reject them for a "prissy little faggot". Here are a few reasons why.
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88Why the Titanic and the Concordia Sank
The Titanic sank in April 1912 and the Italian Contra Concordia almost exactly 100 years later (January 2012)...at almost the same time of night. But that's not all they have in common.
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77Real Life Hawkeye Pierce and BJ
The 4077th depicted on the TV series M*A*S*H and the Obstetrics floor of a certain Midwest teaching hospital had much in common. Chaos or calm. Our residents happened to be the peacetime version of Hawkeye Pierce and B.J. Hunnicutt. During a lull, there was never a dull moment if those two were on duty...
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70Summer Is Family Reunion Time
Summer is just around the corner, and you know what that means... At some point you'll attend that great American event, the Family Reunion, known by several different names: Graduation; Memorial Day weekend; a family wedding; the Fourth of July BBQ. Some families even call them family reunions. Go figure...
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82The Lost Art of Bagging Groceries Logically
aka The Only Non-Politics, Non-Genealogy, Non-Travel, Non-Psychic Hub I'll Publish Here
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