Category Archives: Sequences

Mar 13

B is for Beaver

Posted on Monday, March 13, 2023, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

April 17, 2016: “Tuesday last the contract was let for the new school house in Beaver. D.C. Ferrell of Omaha got the contract for $40,740.00, M.J. Madison got the contract for plumbing for $700.” — Grand Junction Globe, February 26, … Continue reading →

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Mar 06

C is for Coburg

Posted on Monday, March 6, 2023, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

September 17, 2014: The addition to the Coburg school in southern Montgomery County was used for less than 15 years (1956-57 to 1968-69). This is what’s visible of what’s left; the original school was demolished in 1979. The Coburg and Essex … Continue reading →

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Jul 14

Photo 39,005

Posted on Wednesday, July 14, 2021, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

October 27, 2018 After Iowa State’s 40-31 Homecoming victory over Texas Tech, we looked at the decorations on campus. The preceding pictures were chalk on Victory Lane, so I’m posting this instead, which was near the stadium entrance. This, like … Continue reading →

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Mar 19

Photo 38,000

Posted on Friday, March 19, 2021, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

September 26, 2018 Well, they can’t all be winners. This is on the Kansas Turnpike at the somewhat recently reconstructed I-70/I-470 split on the east side of Topeka, on a weeklong vacation to the Dallas-Fort Worth area that included significant … Continue reading →

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Jan 15

Photo 37,000

Posted on Wednesday, January 15, 2020, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

June 21, 2018 US 8 is almost exclusively confined to Wisconsin. It used to run to downtown Minneapolis but currently ends at I-35 on the fringes of the Twin Cities metro area. It barely gets into Michigan, where it ends … Continue reading →

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Oct 17

Photo 36,000

Posted on Thursday, October 17, 2019, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

October 11, 2017: A milestone in American history at the tip of Cape Cod. This milestone photo has extra significance besides being at a historic monument. I have an ancestor who was on the Mayflower. Some backfill from another event made … Continue reading →

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Jun 26

Photo 34,998

Posted on Wednesday, June 26, 2019, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

June 22, 2017: The Iowa Welcome Center outside Missouri Valley is Lincoln Highway-themed. Included near the recreation area is a ground-mounted map of Iowa with the Lincoln Highway represented as a raised line across the state. 2017 was full of … Continue reading →

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May 22

Photo(s) 34,000

Posted on Wednesday, May 22, 2019, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

Also approximately my 2500th blog post (depending on when this actually goes up). April 19, 2017 Abandoned schools aren’t unique to Iowa. They’re scattered across the Great Plains. I found emphasis on that as I drove across the southern tier … Continue reading →

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Feb 23

Photo 33,000

Posted on Friday, February 23, 2018, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

In my Big South Trip, I visited three state capitols — in Jackson, Baton Rouge, and Montgomery. Louisiana’s state capitol building, a Depression-era Art Deco skyscraper, is deeply entwined with the history of one of its most colorful politicians, Huey … Continue reading →

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Jan 25

Photo 32,000

Posted on Thursday, January 25, 2018, at 10:00 AM by Jeff

Finding my 32,000th photo was more complicated than it should have been. It turns out that I accidentally mis-set the time on the camera (yes, you youths, there was such as thing as “manually setting date and time”) and so … Continue reading →

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