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Made in Kauai: Homegrown products beckon from Hawaii’s Garden Isle

August 23, 2019 at 1:32 p.m.

In Hawaiian, "waialeale" means "overflowing water." It's therefore the perfect name for Mount Waialeale, smack dab in the middle of Kauai, since it is one of the wettest places on...

Wearing an apron that demonstrates her devotion to lefse, Julie Spilde holds one of the Norwegian-style pans sold in her Decorah kitchen store.

Decorah’s Norwegian immigrant museum is fit for a king

August 23, 2019 at 1:25 p.m.

Standing beside shelves stacked high with kitchen supplies, Julie Spilde explained that home cooks need a lot of stuff if they're going to make lefse, a thin potato pancake from...

Iowa caucuses’ pivotal role showcased in state museum exhibit

August 23, 2019 at 1:23 p.m.

Since 1972, Iowans have played a pivotal role in presidential politics. Now the history of the state's important caucuses is being showcased. The "First in the Nation" exhibit will be...

Reginald Fluence, left, and Derrick Woodly work on the construction of a log cabin. The structure would become one of the dozens of bonfires to be lit on Christmas Eve in Louisiana's river parishes.

Louisiana holiday: Open doors and fires in the bayous

August 23, 2019 at 1:22 p.m.

On a sunny December day last year, Reginald Fluence and Derrick Woodly were busy building a small cabin like the ones so common in the Louisiana bayous. High atop a...

In Henry VIII’s castle, they’re still making meals fit for a king

August 23, 2019 at 1:19 p.m.

Robert Hoare appeared remarkably unfazed as he sat beside a blazing fire inside the historic Hampton Court Palace, dressed in the bulky clothes of a 16th century working man. As...

‘Military City, USA’ history started long before the Alamo

August 23, 2019 at 1:16 p.m.

The military's roots are deep, very deep, in San Antonio. Their seeds were sown nearly 300 years ago when what's now Texas belonged to Spain. The San Antonio de Bejar...

A life ring and life vest hang, along with a painting of the Edmund Firzgerald in rough Lake Superior waters, in a display at the Lake Superior Maritime Museum on Oct. 25, 2005, in Duluth, Minn. Dan Christianson, right, a retired Wausau, Wis., teacher, who had left a job in Silver Bay, Minn., not long before the Fitzgerald sank, knew of one of the Fitzgerald sailors who lived in Silver Bay. The Fitzgerald, an ore carrier, sank Nov. 10, 1975.

40 years later, ship’s legend lives on in a Gordon Lightfoot song and two museums

August 23, 2019 at 1:15 p.m.

From the sandy shore strewn with bleached driftwood and smoothed stones, a former Coast Guard station looms, capped by the oldest lighthouse on Lake Superior. Just 100 or so yards...

After enjoying a creamy root beer float, customers at Fitz's can grab a six-pack or two before leaving.

As its arch turns 50, St. Louis embraces its historic attractions

August 23, 2019 at 1:11 p.m.

In the early 1960s, at the same time rocket scientists were trying to figure out how to put a man on the moon, other engineers were struggling with a different...

Albuquerque vs. Santa Fe: It depends what you want

August 23, 2019 at 12:58 p.m.

With a population of about 550,000 people, Albuquerque's a big city by New Mexico standards. In fact, it's the only big city. More than 40 percent of the state's residents...

A statue of Adm. Chester Nimitz, one of the U.S. Navy leaders at the close of World War II, greets visitors outside the Battleship Missouri Memorial in Honolulu.

World War II museums tell how grit, technology won Japanese surrender

August 23, 2019 at 12:53 p.m.

Not many among us are old enough to remember the day World War II ended as the Japanese formally surrendered aboard the USS Missouri 70 years ago. There are fewer...

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