Odd-looking thing, really. Its keyboard makes it a piano or organ of some sort, but it comes packaged in what…
James C. SchaapJuly 2, 2021
Once upon a time, he shot at surfacing German subs in the North Atlantic, tried to pick off the crews…
James C. SchaapJune 4, 2021
It’s a bit of an embarrassment really, or so I discovered. I’d never heard of the monument until it showed…
James C. SchaapMay 21, 2021
The whole thing’s a stretch, but what the heck--I'm lovin' it. Sheriff Pat Garrett plugged Billy the Kid, a notorious gunslinger,…
James C. SchaapMay 7, 2021
Perhaps it was more typical than not--that night, I mean. The guy worked a high-crime district, West Palm Beach, where…
James C. SchaapApril 23, 2021
If you look closely, you can tell it's not the Great Plains. That big tree is too perfect; prairie trees…
James C. SchaapMarch 26, 2021
There isn't much we know about Aunt Gertie's death. It happened on a foggy night in November, 1949, along a…
James C. SchaapMarch 12, 2021
"What places do I really have to see when I'm here?" I asked the woman behind the desk at the Osage…
James C. SchaapFebruary 26, 2021
If the place sounds cliche-ish, you can't blame Garretson, SD, because doggone it, not every Siouxland burg has a tourist…
James C. SchaapFebruary 12, 2021
