For our December issue of Rural Missouri , I did a story on the fruitcakes Assumption Abbey makes. Each year, the Trappist monks at the remo...

While visiting Great Smoky Mountains National Park in November, our first hike was to Laurel Falls. This very scenic, cascading...

For our November issue of Rural Missouri Magazine I featured Gastineau Log Homes , which is based in New Bloomfield, Missouri. Lynn Gasti...

Over the Thanksgiving weekend, I finally took the time to hike down into the shut-ins below Crane Lake damn. Its only a mile and some change...

In September, I had the pleasure to stay the night at Granny's Country Cottage in northern Missouri. Owners Jack and Donna Thieme's...