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Clippity Cloppin' Down the Plank Road ~
D.D. Collins owned the Collinsville Plank Road Company and built the plank road from Collinsville to St. Louis. There is not a lot of...
Carolyn Welch
Jul 11, 2017


1840 Wisdom, Humor, and Forecasts ~
A little research, a lot of luck, and, by cracky, we've come across an archive (via archive.org) that you can bet your boots D.D. Collins...
Carolyn Welch
Jul 7, 2017


Summer 2017 Radish Harvest ~
A very heartfelt Thank You to Theresa Tambarello of the Collinsville Garden Club for harvesting the June 2017 radish crop. The hard work...
Carolyn Welch
Jul 2, 2017


Now you can have your portrait ~
photo taken with the portrait photos of Daniel Dove Collins and Elizabeth Anderson Collins when you visit the historic D.D. Collins House...
Carolyn Welch
Jun 8, 2017


Watermelons and pumpkins ~
and gourds . . . Oh my! May 27 was a great day to enjoy ~ A slideshow of a great Boy Scout Troop of gardeners . . . If you want to see...
Carolyn Welch
Jun 2, 2017


Ostriches fiddling in our garden~
Yep, it's true . . . Ostrich ferns been fiddleheadin', too - If you don't know exactly what I mean, click the link below fiddle dee, dee...
Carolyn Welch
May 4, 2017


Grandpa's beard was a blowin'~
in the wind . . . In case you missed it, with the cold and rainy weather and the busy lives we lead, I stopped and snapped some pix of...
Carolyn Welch
May 2, 2017