It’s More Than Just A Highway
The tradition of the Keresan speaking Pueblo Indians is that their people have lived at the site of Laguna Pueblo for at least seven hundred years. Legend has it that…
Hard Times
"By most accounts it was a surprisingly mild day in late March 1933 when McLean County sheriff’s deputy Charles Adams, accompanied by a DeWitt county deputy, went to the grocery…
Sleep Is Our Business
The tag line in promotion for the Hiway House Motel chain was "Sleep Is Our Business." It appeared in brochures and on the motels distinctive signage that cast a neon…
Route 66: From Japan to Amsterdam
In 1966, US 66 was the highway that my family followed west to Arizona. In 1968, I rode my bicycle along Route 66 to my first paying job, watering the…