ROXIE YONKEY

Nov 7, 2024 | kansasreflector.com | ROXIE YONKEY

I wrote three books about Kansas in three years. During my travels, I heard that James Bond is buried in St. Mary’s Catholic Cemetery, Pittsburg. I couldn’t find 007. Instead, I found multiple languages carved on tombstones and the Mishmash family graves. A mish-mash is a jumble of objects. It’s also a Bulgarian dish akin to a breakfast skillet. That cemetery in the state’s Little Balkans is a statewide metaphor.

Oct 23, 2024 | travelawaits.com | ROXIE YONKEY

Note: The Travel Awaits team regularly updates content to provide the latest, and most accurate information to our readers. The updated content in this article may not reflect the views or opinions of the original author. Mammoth: Of enormous size, extent, or amount; huge. Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave National Park lives up to its name. It’s the world’s longest cave system. So far, explorers have mapped 412 miles of the cave, the distance from Boston to Baltimore.

Oct 16, 2024 | followthepiper.com | Stacey Wittig |ROXIE YONKEY |Amy Piper

Table of ContentsToggleThis Northern Michigan wine region sits on the 45th parallel, along with many of the other wonderful wine regions of the world—the Willamette Valley in Oregon, the Piedmont region of Italy, and France’s Bordeaux region. Established in 2016, the Tip of the Mitt AVA is the newest of the federally recognized AVAs in Michigan’s Wine Country.

Mar 5, 2024 | roxieontheroad.com | ROXIE YONKEY

Three weeks after Colonel John Chivington and his troopers slaughtered non-combatants at the Sand Creek Massacre, they triumphantly entered Denver. They waved Cheyenne and Arapaho scalps and other body parts on December 22, 1864. The Rocky Mountain News gushed, “Among the brilliant feats of arms in Indian warfare, the recent campaign of our Colorado volunteers will stand in history with few rivals, and none to exceed it in final results . . .”The newspaper was right.

Apr 28, 2023 | kwch.com | ROXIE YONKEY

She has written “100 Things to Do in Kansas Before You Die” and most recently, “Secret Kansas: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure.