Author Archives: Granger Meador
Culture Wars
August 2023 Earlier this summer, Wendy and I were in Trinidad, Colorado at the A.R. Mitchell Museum of Western Art. There was an exhibit of photographs by Edward Curtis, and I wasn’t at all surprised to see a print of … Continue reading
Westward Ho! Amarillo
June 12-13, 2023 | Photo Album Wendy and I head west each summer for a vacation. We timed this year’s outing so that we could rendezvous with friends in Manitou Springs, Colorado. That led us to revisit Santa Fe, New … Continue reading
Mapping History
Reading maps was a skill they once tested in a final section of the standardized tests I took in grade school in the 1970s. That section of the tests always struck me as ludicrously simple, as I had grown up … Continue reading
Route 66 versus I-44
I grew up in Oklahoma City, and when I was little my parents purchased a cabin on Table Rock Lake in the Ozarks of far southwestern Missouri. That second home was the destination for most of our vacations from 1968 … Continue reading
A break in Bella Vista
Wendy and I spent part of our Spring Break 2023 in Bella Vista, Arkansas. It is the northernmost of a chain of cities in the Northwest Arkansas metropolitan area, NWA, which has more than tripled in population during my lifetime. … Continue reading
Meador Manor 