The comeback of nostalgic advertising in small town USA Have you ever caught yourself trying to decipher a ghost sign? You know — those extra large, faded advertisements for brands like Mail Pouch Chewing Tobacco and Coca-Cola you … Continue reading Walldogs — The Artists Behind Ghost Signs
Because well-behaved women rarely make history. When was the last time you were brave? Was it when you tried a new dish for dinner or when you jumped off that waterfall last weekend? If you’re on the … Continue reading Daring Darlings: 6 Stunt Women You Ought to Know
Forty minutes south of the buzzing neon and crowded honkytonks of Nashville’s Lower Broadway strip are miles of winding two-lane back roads connecting small towns to more small towns. Today, it’s easy to pile into … Continue reading Backroad General Store Tour
Down a back alley two blocks from the Mississippi River in Davenport, Iowa, Dean Wright is busy welding an exhaust pipe onto a ’79 Vespa P200E. Working in site of a whiteboard crowded with notes on … Continue reading The Language of Love: Italian Vespas Restored in an Iowa Alley
Twelve hundred feet up on the side of a mountain in Telluride, Colorado, hail has begun to fall on the head of photographer Lindsey Ross. She retreats as fast as her heavy oil-stained overalls will allow, back to her Ford pickup … Continue reading Lindsey Ross: Documenting Mine Remains Using Civil War-Era Method
Vinsetta Garage – serving up classic American comfort food on America’s first paved road In 2010, the oil and grease were wiped up and the jacks and drill bits were put away as the oldest operating … Continue reading Motor City: Dine at One of the Oldest Garages in America
The papers were signed and the deal was done. STAAR Theatre, a community theatre group that had outgrown its old space to the point of even breaking fire codes, had just found a property into which they could grow. After … Continue reading Abandoned Antoinette Hall: The Secret Stage
New Englander moves into a music legend’s hunting cabin where she unlocks inspiration to pen her best songs. Take Hillsboro Road out of Nashville and it will lead you south to Leiper’s Fork, Tennessee, a town … Continue reading Rebecca Correia: Writing in the Woods
