If a mountain drive is still on your fall list, now is the time to take it. Some of West Virginia’s prettiest roads close once snow or the calendar says so, and a closure can come with little notice. Here are the high-country drives to fit in before winter locks the gates. 1. Highland Scenic…
Friday in the fall has its own pull. Saturday belongs to the Huskers, but the night before may find you under small-town stadium lights. Here’s how many Nebraskans spend the night before game day. 1. Packed Small-Town Stadiums High school football runs on Friday nights across the entire state, and you can drive to almost…
Drive past a North Dakota field after the last beets come out, and it can look like the work is done. Growers know better. Here’s what many of them turn to next. 1. Crediting the Leftover Nitrogen Farmers don’t dig a beet field and walk away once the harvester clears out. Modern defoliators mulch the…
Some South Carolina country stores have been open for a century or more, and they still ring up sales. Here’s where you can step into that kind of history. 1. LeNoir Store LeNoir Store has run behind the same Horatio counter since before 1808, when Isaac LeNoir’s will divided his land and his store among…
It’s apple season in Vermont, and growers with fruit still on the trees are keeping a close eye on the weather. One bitter night can hurt apples that haven’t been picked yet. Here’s what an orchard shows when the cold is closing in. 1. Clear, Calm, Dry Nights An orchard faces its highest freeze risk…
Fall in Kentucky runs on a calendar all its own, and it’s busy right now. Out-of-staters may call it odd, but locals just call it October. Here’s a look at the autumn habits Kentuckians barely think about. Housing Tobacco Kentucky’s tobacco fields go from standing to empty within a matter of days every fall. Farm…
Read an Oregon road sign out loud, and someone may politely correct you. These are the Oregon town names locals pronounce nothing like they’re spelled. 1. Yachats Yachats sits on the central Oregon coast, and its spelling gives no hint of how the name sounds. Read it out loud the way you’d read any other…
Long before texting shrank American slang into acronyms, Floridians spent the 1970s talking with words nobody used to have to define. Many of them didn’t last. These are the words Floridians used throughout the 1970s that sound like a different language to Americans today. 1. Groovy Groovy meant excellent, first-rate, exactly what you wanted, and…
A campaign called New Illinois wants at least seven more counties to vote this November on whether to explore splitting away from Cook County for good. That takes a while to explain. It’s far from the only Illinois fact that takes more than one sentence. These are the things Illinoisans are tired of explaining to…
You know a place matters to you when a visit back to Illinois feels incomplete without stopping there. It might not impress you on paper, and you probably wouldn’t call it a tourist attraction. But you’d notice if it disappeared. These are the Illinois originals you can’t get anywhere else. 1. Superdawg’s Rooftop Giants Superdawg…
