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Monday After: Canton learned 50 years ago this week about Meyers Lake park closure
The Repository via Yahoo News· 4 days agoPhotos by then photo chief Cliff Haga that accompanied Spencer's 1974 article about the closing of...
The history of the Elitch family and the creation of Denver’s entertainment scene
KDVR Denver via Yahoo News· 10 hours agoThe Elitch name, which still pops up around Denver, can be traced back to the mid-1800s when Mary...
Mitch Albom: Michigan Central Station celebrates not just Detroit's future, but its present
Detroit Free Press· 5 days agoA fire claimed the city’s previous train depot in 1913 and rushed a new building in Corktown into...
How to dork out on trains in Baltimore
The Baltimore Banner· 4 days agoBaltimore is just about the best city in America if you love trains. Gorgeous train stations dotted the 1800s landscape, and many still stand today. ...
After my dad died, I quit my job and took a cross-country road trip to recapture our past
TODAY via Yahoo News· 6 days agoPerhaps my father, born in New York City, was similarly charmed by these mountains after growing up...
Putin’s Proxies Work to Thwart Moldova’s Embrace of the West
Bloomberg via Yahoo News· 3 days ago(Bloomberg) -- It’s Friday evening on the Moldovan steppe when Ivan Bessarab abandons his rounds of...
LA's shimmering Bonaventure hotel, and the future that never came
San Francisco Chronicle· 16 hours agoWhat better way to show off the future of Southern California (and perhaps the world) than the city...
Yiddish theater and radicals found a home at Douglas Park Auditorium
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 5 days agoIf the walls of the Douglas Park Auditorium could talk, they might well speak Yiddish. A three-story...
In Omaha's circus history, one night when the clowns cried
Omaha World-Herald· 5 days agoOmaha witnessed one of the fatal exceptions. Sway-pole artist Henrietta Kreis Grotefent fell to her...
The Terminal at 20: Steven Spielberg's American limbo
The A.V. Club· 2 days agoGraduate school days were already behind me at that point and I was working as a low-level account...