Posts Tagged ‘great river road’
From the Archives: Button, Button, Who’s Got the Button?
We drove through Buffalo Iowa early on a Sunday morning, just as Judy’s Barge Inn, a local variation of the more common Dew Drop Inn, was opening for the breakfast crowd. It was too early for a local historical society to be open. It was not too early to stop and read the local historical…
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Rock Island Arsenal, Pt 2 Taming the Mississippi
As so often happens on our road trips, our visit to the Mississippi River Visitor Center at Lock and Dam 15 on Arsenal Island turned out to be much more than we expected. We went to the center expecting to see exhibits on the flora and fauna of this stage of the river, the general…
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Rock Island Arsenal, Part 1: Colonel Davenport’s House, and a Couple of Long Digressions
Visiting “Colonel” George Davenport’s house on the Rock Island Arsenal* turned out to be more interesting than I expected, in part because of our knowledgeable and enthusiastic guide. And also because it turned out that “Colonel” Davenport was right at the center of things in the history of the the region. Something I also hadn’t…
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