Brian D'Ambrosio
Baldassare Forestiere and the Garden Beneath California
There are gardens, and then there are the Forestiere Underground Gardens, where the first thing a visitor learns is that the earth can be an...
Olive Rush: The Quiet Original of Canyon Road
Some artists leave behind paintings. Olive Rush left behind a place. Visitors entering the adobe compound at 630 Canyon Road discover more than...
Tinkertown’s Whimsical World: The Eccentric...
Tucked into the ponderosa pines of the Sandia Mountains east of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Tinkertown Museum is a hand-built labyrinth of imagination...
City of Refuse: The Disorderly World of Leroy Gonzalez
Golden, New Mexico, population fourteen, is the kind of place you might pass by without a second glance. But if you stop, if you wander off the road...
William Rotsaert: A Flemish Eye on the American light
From Bruges to Santa Fe, a painter translates memory, motion, and myth through color and curiosity. William Rotsaert paints in the language of...
New Mexico Eccentrics
In a land too vast for conformity, eccentricity becomes a way of survival—and an art form of its own. New Mexico Eccentrics is a portrait...
Spokane Bar Sapphire Mine & Gold Fever Rock Shop:...
There are barely a handful of places in the U.S. where you can mine for your own gemstones. One of them is only 10 miles east of Helena. This...
Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site
Located on the upper Missouri River on the present-day Montana-North Dakota border, Fort Union was the nineteenth century’s most important and...
About the Battle of the Little Bighorn
The Indians are in the grass in the low ground; the cavalrymen are trying to form a line where the hill starts to rise. The guns sound like cap...
Free Enterprise Radon Health Mine
Although numerous radium hot springs may be found throughout the United States, the Boulder-Basin area south of Helena is the only place in the...
Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area
Nothing in the quiet openness of the prairies and valleys of the Crow Reservation prepares the traveler for the contrasting scale and utter...
Selected Grassroots Artists and Sites in Kansas
Paul Boyer’s Animated Carvings, Belleville The Paul Boyer Museum of Animated Carvings features the imaginative concoctions of Paul Boyer. Born in...
Harold Lloyd: Silent Film Comedian
arold Clayton Lloyd was born at 24 Pawnee Street on April 20, 1893, in Burchard, Nebraska, to Elizabeth and James “Foxy” Lloyd. It was during his...
Pete Felten: A Life of Limestone
o endure, Pete Felten has stayed true to his mission. To attain longevity didn’t mean that he had to ever re-invent himself, either. The Kansan...
Studious Sculptor: A Life of Elisabet Ney
Elisabet Ney was born in Münster, Westphalia, Germany, in 1833, and spent a great deal of her childhood watching her father carve complex statuary...
Folk Art Anarchy: Ron Lessman’s Truckhenge
Ron Lessman’s folk art perhaps warrants its own genre: art as political concern. While many other art environments amassed the anger of the local...