2005: Best places to spend the night
I was away from home 88 nights during 2005, with a tremendous variety in lodging. The settings were plush to rustic, in urban to remote […]
Month: December 2005
Badger Barbies at home in NY toy museum
Barbara Millicent Roberts, a woman of many personalities, used to hang out in Sturgeon Bay with hundreds of her friends and family. As of this […]
Christmas chocolates: Line forms at Hughes
The boxes are plain, lightweight and stamped simply in red or black. The contents are luscious, fresh and full of chocolate – a jumble of […]
Berrymans: Dey’re here, dey’re dere
The Mabel Tainter is an elegant old building in downtown Menomonie that is part church, part theater, part library and community center. Named after a […]
Catching the spirit of Kenosha, downtown
I would have never expected to find Jimmy Carter, Jesse Jackson and Sylvester Stallone shoulder to shoulder in downtown Kenosha. A block away, I met […]