Seligman, AZ
The Seligman Burger Man Who Served Laughs on the Side
The little drive-in in Seligman, Arizona, had “Snow Cap” in its name, even though the desert around it looked far more likely to serve dust than snowballs.
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The Bellman Who Taught Memphis Ducks to Walk the Red Carpet
The funny thing about the lobby ducks at The Peabody Memphis wasn’t that they were in the fountain. It was that, for a while, they were famous hotel guests with absolutely no sense of ceremony.
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Cranston, RI
The Cranston Kid Who Made New Sneakers Feel Like a Welcome Mat
The shoes were what Nicholas Lowinger couldn’t stop seeing: sneakers with tired soles, pairs pinching small feet, shoes that looked as if they had already lived someone else’s whole childhood.
Tulsa, OK
The Tulsa Woman Who Got Tapped by Space
The sky over Tulsa flared like someone had dragged a match across the dark. Then, a little later, space followed up with the politest possible knock.
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Las Cruces, NM
Pluto’s New Mexico Punster Gets One More Ride
A tiny moving dot once changed Clyde Tombaugh’s life. Decades later, a tiny portion of him went chasing after it, tucked aboard a spacecraft headed into the deep, cold dark. Clyde W.
New Haven, CT
The New Haven Toymaker Who Made the Case for Christmas
The little metal pieces must have looked almost funny in such a serious room: tiny girders, nuts, bolts, pulleys, and motors, the sort of things that could turn a living-room floor into a small…
Ho‘olehua, HI
The Molokai Postmaster Who Turned Coconuts Into Postcards
A dried coconut is not exactly shy. Put one on a postal counter, cover it in marker ink and stamps, and suddenly the day feels a little less ordinary.
Henderson, KY
The Henderson Teacher Who Gave Mothers a Day in Class
Before Mother’s Day meant cards on a rack or flowers wrapped in crackly paper, it could look as simple as children standing in a schoolroom, trying very hard not to giggle while honoring the women…
Savannah, GA
Flannery O’Connor’s First Brush with Fame Had Feathers
Before the famous stories, before the peafowl, before anyone knew Mary Flannery O’Connor as one of Georgia’s sharpest observers, there was a chicken in Savannah doing the wrong thing very well.
Blue Earth, MN
The Radio Man Who Gave Travelers Their Giant
In Blue Earth, Minnesota, travelers kept pulling off the highway to meet a giant who didn’t exist. They had cameras ready, questions ready, and then—nothing but a very polite letdown.
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