Do you think a Nebraska Husker football Saturday looks like game day pretty much anywhere else in the country? It doesn’t. These are the things Nebraskans do on a game day that nobody else would. 1. Cheering the Visitors Nebraskans have built a national reputation for clapping for the team that just beat them on…
The sign-up sheet taped to a Utah ward’s Relief Society bulletin board says nothing about menus. It asks only for names, oven space, and how many nine-by-thirteen pans of funeral potatoes each volunteer can spare by Thursday. Out-of-staters take one look and wonder why nobody gets to choose a dish. The menu isn’t up for…
Kraft General Foods paid to own the name and the recipes when Hough Bakeries locked its doors for good in Cleveland in August 1992. By then the company was down to 32 stores pulling in $12 million a year, a fraction of the 1,000-person operation it ran at its 1973 peak. Somebody wanted those recipes….
Florida has received more hurricane landfalls in October than any other state, according to National Hurricane Center records going back to 1851. State parks close campgrounds and tighten ranger enforcement as the season turns. The visitors don’t stop coming, though. These are the Florida state park rules some visitors break every October. 1. Sea Turtle…
Cold weather is easier to welcome when you know what’s coming out of the kitchen. In West Virginia, some old family recipes feel as much a part of the season as reaching for your heavier coat. These are the West Virginia foods families save for when it gets cold. 1. Leather Britches Beans Leather britches…
Nationally, the National Fire Protection Association points to one factor behind more home heating fires than any other: Equipment nobody bothered to clean. Often, that means the chimney. And in Baltimore’s older rowhouse blocks, it’s common for two neighboring homes to share the wall their chimneys are built against. These are the chimney mistakes that…
Maricopa County’s public health department confirmed 150 heat-related deaths by early September 2026, a death toll running 97% ahead of the same point last year. Heat like that drives a lot of bottled hydration sales, and an entire industry competes for Arizonans’ money. Some of what it sells is unnecessary. These are the hydration claims…
New Hampshire’s National Weather Service office ends its fall frost and freeze advisories in three separate zones, each about 10 days after that zone’s typical first freeze happens. These are the things New Hampshirites forget to shut off before the first freeze. 1. Outdoor Hose Bibs Homeowners who forget a hose screwed onto an outside…
Minnesota has built its reputation on being nice. A 2026 SmartAsset study measuring time spent socializing, volunteering, and helping others put the state at No. 11 for friendliness, just outside the top ten. But friendly doesn’t mean being direct. These are the things Minnesotans say that mean the opposite. 1. “That’s Interesting” The warmest-sounding compliment…
More than half of Maine, spread across 429 separate townships, has no town government at all. The state fills in for a town, piece by piece, through a different department for almost everything a town would normally handle. These are the things that work differently in the half of Maine with no town government. 1….
