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Mother Nature’s Splash Park
The Missourian had a story saying that the new Cape Splash Family Aquatic Center – AKA the water park – saw more than 106,000 visitors during its first season. Record high temperatures, no rain and...
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Sydney’s Fresh Veggies
Ridge Road in Jackson is an interesting street. A couple of blocks from the slow-moving golfer who had me confused, Mother and I spotted Sydney’s Fresh Veggies stand. Produce stands aren’t unheard of...
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Associated Sheet Metal Eagle
I drove down Lee Avenue in Jackson hoping to find some interesting pictures of Kasten Masonry Sales. On the way down to where the road deadends, I spotted this eagle catching a fish sculpture. At first...
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Brookside War Memorial
On one of my trips to Wib’s BBQ, I finally stopped to visit the Brookside Park Memorial to Veterans of All Wars, sponsored by the Jackson Memorial Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 10495 and the American...
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‘I’m Having a Heart Attack!’
I’m pretty sure the American Ice Cream Drive-In on the left as you come into Jackson was once a Dairy Queen. It wasn’t one of my haunts. (I was more a Wib’s guy.) You know how certain family stories...
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Is It True?
Wife Lila and I were over in Jackson to see Carla Jordan at the new Cape Girardeau County History Center on Thursday. All the parking was taken up, so we circled the block hoping a spot would open up....
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Gary R. Lucy Exhibit
The Cape Girardeau County History Center in Jackson was hanging a new exhibit Friday afternoon – A Celebration of the Artwork of Gary R. Lucy. Upon arrival, I watched a guy (who turned out to be Gary...
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Sunrises are Overrated
I’ve seen two sunrises this week. I pulled two all-nighters editing pictures and sending them off to be printed. The sunrises were spectacularly reddish, or, that might have just been what they looked...
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Acquainted with the Night
Back in the days when I was working at The Missourian, I’d cover some night event, maybe a meeting or sporting event, then I’d go to my home basement darkroom to process the film and print the photos....
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Big Change at Wib’s BBQ
Five generations of Steinhoffs have eaten at this BBQ joint on the edge of Jackson, even though I joke that they’ve only used three hogs since the place opened in 1947. I had let the dishes pile up in...
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