Today Densmore is a ghost town near the Solomon River in West Union Township of Norton County. Edmond, Kansas – Norton County Ghost Town –(Legends of Kansas) The original plat of Edmond was registered by John D. Edmond of Leavenworth, Kansas, on September 3, 1879. Reager, Kansas – ...
What is La Niña? According to NOAA, La Niña is the cooler phase of a weather pattern known as El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) with El Niño being the warmer phase. La Niña develops when the waters of the tropical Pacific Ocean are cooler. El Niño develops when the water...
It's all about this street. Haynesville Woods Route 2A, which runs through the community of Haynesville in Aroostook County, Maine, has been a death trap for years, and now it's dealing with the ghosts of the dead as well. The most common legend about this road involves a woman pleadi...
Texas county reverses classification of Indigenous history book as fiction argot (n.): 1860, from French argot (17th C.) “the jargon of Paris rogues and thieves” (for purposes of disguise and concealment), earlier “the company of beggars,” from French argot,“group of beggars,” a word...
I woke up early and got up to write something re a neighborhood issue (whether the neighborhood forum is an appropriate place to discuss a petition to recall our county DA). Here’s what I wrote: Reflecting on the question of politics entering this neighborhood discussion group, I see with...
Although in Vík í Mýrdal, Iceland, these columns are eerily similar to the Giant’s Causeway near Bushmills in County Antrim, Northern Ireland (which I visited in this post). My first instinct was to wonder if Iceland and Ireland were once flush to each other. And while a map of ...
If you were at Lakes Jam and lost items that you don't see here, all hope is not lost. They may still find items. There were many people responding to Lakes Jam's post; most of them were thankful that Lakes Jam took the time to try to find the owners. I agree! They certainly ...
"When the waters are warmer, it tends to mean you have lower pressures. It means a more unstable atmosphere, which is conducive to hurricanes intensifying," said Phil Klotzbach, an atmospheric scientist at Colorado State University. "These thunderstorms, which are the building blocks of hurricanes...
(which, by the way, I am very excited to read…and only a bit deterred that it’s the first book in a year I won’t be reading on my Kindle- technology, guys). After seeing a tweet that he was going on a cross-county book signing tour, naturally my next step was to anxiously...
“Crime in America is out of control.” Trump delivered his announcement during a campaign stop focused on “crime and safety” at the Livingston County Sheriff's Office in Howell, Michigan, a town about 60 miles north of Detroit. Despite a national decline in violent crime this ye...