By Randy Gardner  Though they aren’t found for sale as frequently as chipped stone artifacts like arrowheads and knives, ground stone axes have a strong following among buyers of prehistoric artifacts. On the rare occasions when they’re offered for sale, especially large or well formed axes can sell for one to five hundred dollars. By definition, ground axes are made […]

1777 – 13 Stars, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island. 1795 – 15 Stars, Vermont, Kentucky. 1818 – 20 Stars, Tennessee, Ohio, Louisiana, Indiana, Mississippi. 1819 – 21 Stars, Illinois. 1820 – 23 Stars, Alabama, Maine. 1822 – 24 Stars, Missouri. 1836 – 25 Stars, Arkansas. 1837 […]

By Robert Reed  Displays of patriotism abounded in the United States long before the most timely arrival of holiday postcards on the American scene early in the 20th century. Yet the robust stars and stripes and all those related images just never looked better than they did in print on illustrated postcards.  Within ten years of the ‘new’ century citizens […]

 Nestled in Pike National Forest outside Denver, Colorado and just past  the town of Bailey, Colorado, is a cozy, rustic vacation waiting to happen. Glen Isle Resort is a place of tradition and history.  Glen Isle was constructed in 1901 as a resort for the prominent and well-to-do, most of whom resided in Denver, some 50 miles to the east. […]

By Maureen Timm  Blue Ridge dinnerware acquired its name from the misty Blue Ridge Mountains in Tennessee. This charming, hand painted pottery decorated in a spectrum of vivid colors was one of the nation’s most attractive and original dinnerware lines for over forty years.  It all began in 1917 in the small southern town of Erwin, Tennessee, when the California […]