Lakenenland Sculpture Park is a unique art park in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula which contains a large variety of metal sculptures and junkyard art, made by former ironworker and local artist Tom Lakenen. Situated on a half-mile dirt trail among scenic pines where you can either walk, drive or even snowmobile in the winter, the sculptures …
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I’m Your Huckelberry – Grim Travels through the Desert Southwest – Part I
For the holidays this year, we decided to ditch the usual traditions and travel to the Desert Southwest, specifically to Tombstone, Arizona. If nothing else, it would be warmer than Minnesota! We had many other adventures, grim and otherwise and caught up with some dear friends a long the way. As always, the Minnesota Roadhounds …
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Boot Hill Cemetery – Ogallala, NE
Otis Redding Crash Site
Otis Redding was a renowned singer, songwriter, record producer, arranger and talent scout known for such classic hits as “Sitting on the Dock of the Bay” and “Try a Little Tenderness”. One of the most famous and beloved American soul and rhythm and blues singers of all time, Otis was tragically lost at the height …
Buddy Holly Crash Site
The Buddy Holly plane crash site aka “The Day the Music Died” is located in a rural cornfield in Clear Lake, Iowa, just a few miles from where Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson played their last show on February 2, 1959 at the Surf Ballroom. Scheduled to play a show …
Donner Pass – Cannibalism
Donner Pass is a gorgeous pass in the Northern Sierra Nevada mountains near Reno, Nevada and Truckee, California. The pass is famously named after the ill-fated Donner Party who spent the winter there in 1846. The Donner Party was a group of pioneers who migrated from the Midwest to California and after a series of …
Alferd Packer Massacre Site
Alferd G. Packer of Colorado was a prospector and wilderness guide who confessed to cannibalism in 1874. Packer and five other men had traveled through the San Juan Mountains during a particularly harsh winter. Packer was the only one to reach civilization. The five bodies of his party members were found at the foot of …
John Denver Sanctuary
Henry John Deutschendorf Jr., known as John Denver to his fans, was a singer/songwriter, actor and humanitarian. One of the most popular and best-selling solo artists of the 1970’s, John Denver died at the age of 53 in a single-fatality crash while piloting a recently purchased light plane. John Denver’s Sanctuary is located in Aspen, …
Jack McCall Hanging
Jon “Jack” McCall, also known as “Crooked Nose” or “Broken Nose Jack” was the man who murdered “Wild” Bill Hickok in Deadwood, Dakota Territory on August 2, 1876 . In what was widely considered a cowardly act, McCall shot Hickok from behind as he played poker at Nuttal and Mann’s Saloon. McCall was hung in …
South Park City
South Park City is a reconstructed ghost town/museum located in Fairplay, Colorado in the heart of high country and Park County. The museum features several relocated original buildings along with thousands of genuine artifacts from the Old West mining era. The museum was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015. South Park …