About a hundred years before Danish settlers arrived at Solvang, the Mission…
Category: North America (page 64)
Solvang
Solvang is the Danish word for sunny fields, which is an appropriate…
Santa Barbara County Courthouse
In 1925, during the earthquake mentioned in the Mission Santa Bárbara post,…
El Presidio de Santa Barbara
Founded on April 21, 1782, the Santa Barbara Presidio was the second…
Mission Santa Barbara
The Santa Barbara Channel was found and named on December 4, 1602,…
Wayne, Alberta
Welcome to Wayne, population then 2490, now 27. Coal once dominated these…
The City that Never Sleeps
In the city that never sleeps, and amongst some of the most…
Tiles for America
In New York City, on the corner of 7th Ave and 11th…
Okotoks Erratic
It looks rather odd sitting in the middle of flat prairie… out…
Dorothy, Alberta — the Town Named After a Young Pioneer
If you wander south through the badlands, past the Tyrrell Museum, past…
SunMaze, Bowden
On the QEII highway, South of Red Deer and North of Calgary,…
The Gophers of Torrington
As you wind your way through farmland and abandoned townships in central…