Travel is something Nick and I enjoy very much. We’ve been fortunate enough to travel to many worldly destinations, so wrapping our head around “vacationing” in Alton, Illinois was a bit of a challenge at first. But wow! We were …
Have you ever wondered what the U.S. was like at the time of the Louisiana Purchase, or what it would have been like to explore unchartered territories with Meriwether Lewis and William Clark? Begin your own exploration of the past …
My second day in Alton, Illinois was just as eventful as the first. At the Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center in Hartford, I was surrounded by the past and learned all about the excursions of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark …
Built around 1840 in Shawneetown, there’s a bank that still stands majestically on the banks of the Ohio River in far southeastern Illinois. It’s said this was the first building in Illinois specifically built as a bank here in this …
