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More from Lifestyle"Backroads & Byways of Missouri: Drives, Day Trips & Weekend Excursions" (Countryman Press, $16.95; ISBN: 978-0-88150-775-1)
Archie Satterfield is a veteran journalist who loves to meander down backroads, byways and all manner of lost highways. He looks for quirky towns, ma-and-pa shops and interesting men and women with a story to tell; in other words, places and people with character. If there is a bit of fascinating history attached to it, all the better. If this type of travel appeals to you, you will love "Backroads & Byways." Satterfield chooses places "that commemorate things that happened before the turn of the 20th century." And so he visits Lewis and Clark State Park, Jesse James' house in St. Joseph, the Amish country around Jamesport, Mark Twain sites in Hannibal and New Madrid, the "epicenter" of Midwestern earthquake country. Branson, the Nashville of Missouri, is here, but a section on the lost art of front-porch sitting best captures the essence of the book as Satterfield celebrates the fact that front porches still exist but laments that nowadays you seldom see anyone actually sitting on them.
— Chicago Tribune
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