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Jessi Haish LaRue

Jessi Haish LaRue is a writer and crazy cat lady from northern Illinois, who loves to explore U.S. and music history. When she’s not roadtripping with her husband, she’s reading, thrift shopping, or blogging about family history.

Come for the alligators and stay for the history at Iowa’s National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium

Come for the alligators and stay for the history at Iowa’s National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium

Extraordinary Places, Road Culture

A minimalist’s nightmare: The House on the Rock overwhelms the senses at every turn

A minimalist’s nightmare: The House on the Rock overwhelms the senses at every turn

It’s Sock Monkey Madness in Rockford, Illinois, the birthplace of the beloved children’s toy

It’s Sock Monkey Madness in Rockford, Illinois, the birthplace of the beloved children’s toy

60 years after ‘the day the music died,’ rock and roll history lives on in Clear Lake

60 years after ‘the day the music died,’ rock and roll history lives on in Clear Lake

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