Custom Chevy Bolt Crossbars on the Cheap
I need a pair of crossbars for my Bolt for hauling the occasional long boards from the home improvement store and for carrying my bicycle around, since I already have a rooftop bicycle rack...
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Sending Children Via Parcel Post
In reading this day’s Santa Fe New Mexican from 100 years ago (25 May 1920), I came across this horrible sounding story in which two young boys, ages 8 and 6, were sent from...
Rustic Dining Chairs
For my last project I made a simple rustic outdoor table out of a bunch of 2×4s. I looked around for a set of chairs to complete it but didn’t see anything for under...
Hotel Muehlebach in Kansas City, Missouri—the White House of the mid-west
In September of 1945, Mrs. Bernice S. (née Shonely) Howard (b. 30 Aug 1906, Hiawatha, KS; d. 2 Mar 1999, Racine, WI) was traveling through Kansas City, Missouri, where she stayed at the Hotel...
The Boy Who Rode His Pony 1,600 Miles To Meet The President
One day in late spring of 1928, fourteen-year-old high school sophomore Boyd Manson Jones decided he was going to ride his horse from his home outside Gallup, New Mexico, all the way to Washington,...
Nell “Nellie” Catherine Bunyan Jennings Hardwick
It has been quite some time since I published one of my Postcard Stories. The reason is that I came across a postcard whose author is connected to a convoluted web of interesting characters....
“And the day he died it was a birthday and I noticed it was mine.”
I have always liked Graham Nash’s song, Cathedral, and it is hard not to hum it when strolling through the Santa Fe national cemetery while taking gravestone photos for people. I’m always scanning others...
A quick test of Nikon’s new CoolPix P1000 Superzoom
Sonya has been getting into graphic design lately and a by-product of that is picking up a bit of Photoshop skills. That has also lead to an interest in photography and image quality beyond...
When Sears & Roebuck were the industry disrupters
With Sears now in decline and fading fast it is interesting to look back at how this mighty giant was once a major threat to established brick and mortar stores at its founding. Richard...
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