Kathryn Page Camp

By tradition, ships are always female. And the best-dressed ships are the ones that carry passengers on multi-day trips. Roland and I toure...

Help! The S.S. Badger is running us down! Okay, that's a slight exaggeration. The largest car ferry on Lake Michigan was behind us in...

For centuries, lighthouses have warned sailors that they are close to land or a reef, keeping boats from running aground and joining the shi...

Okay, so I stole the title from Michigan's tourism ads. To ensure that the theft is legal, I'll make the following disclaimers: I a...

We all get rid of our possessions sooner or later. For some, the major purge comes when we go to our final home, where either God or Satan w...

Here is another true story gathered by the Federal Writers' Project in 1936-1940. I cleaned up a few typos but did not otherwise change ...

Did you know that Lew Wallace, the author of Ben Hur , was the Territorial Governor of New Mexico from 1878 to 1881? He figures prominently ...