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Americana means different things to different folks. Here at Great American Things, it means cool stuff that doesn’t fit into any other category. I guess we could have called it Miscellaneous, but “Great Miscellaneous Things” doesn’t tell you much, does it?
Kid Stuff: Archie Comics
Though the publisher is also known as Archie Comics, I’m celebrating the comic books themselves. Archie, Betty, Veronica,...
Read MoreAmericana: Cheyenne Frontier Days
You don’t have to love the sport of rodeo in order to enjoy Cheyenne Frontier Days. But it helps. Billing itself as “The...
Read MoreKid Stuff: Barbie
She looks pretty good for 50, don’t you think? It’s rather amazing to see the impact a simple doll has had on American girls....
Read MoreAmericana: Fender Guitars
Picture Leo Fender in his California electronics workshop in the late 1930s. Fixing phonographs, radios, and public address systems....
Read MoreAmericana: Girl Scout Cookies
They’re inescapable. Your niece sells them. They’re outside the local Kroger. Your coworker is selling them for her...
Read MoreAmericana: Culinary Institute of America
No cloak-and-dagger stuff for this CIA. Unless the cloak is a chef’s coat, and the dagger is a chef’s knife. The...
Read MoreKid Stuff: Baseball Cards
Don’t pay any attention to all those bandwagon jumpers who decided in the mid-80s that baseball cards were the investment of...
Read MoreKid Stuff: Bridge to Terabithia
I read lots of great children’s stories to my boys when they were growing up. Made up quite a few, too. I don’t know if...
Read MoreAmericana: The Gallup Poll
I may not know what you think. And you may not know what I think. But since 1935, we all know what we all think – thanks to...
Read MoreKid Stuff: Dr. Seuss
Interesting fact 1: The father and grandfather of Dr. Seuss (Theodor Geisel) were both brewmasters. You don’t think those fanciful...
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