Site of the World’s First Atomic Chain Reaction — Video Dispatch
Monday, April 22 2024
Clay visits the site of the world’s first atomic chain reaction on the campus of the University of Chicago.
- Published in Dispatches from the Road
Chicago, Launch Point for Historic Route 66 — Video Dispatch
Sunday, March 24 2024
Clay visits the eastern takeoff point for historic Route 66 in downtown Chicago. Now largely superseded by the Interstate Highway system, Route 66 still looms large in American history and mythology.
- Published in Dispatches from the Road
Fort Dilts, North Dakota — Video Dispatch
Friday, February 09 2024
Clay takes us to Fort Dilts, North Dakota, a hastily-made sod fort built in 1864 by a party of would-be gold miners to fend off attacks by the Lakota. However more perspectives to the story should be considered.
- Published in Dispatches from the Road
Holiday Special: Clay Reads “Mr. Ingalls Meets Santa Claus” From Little House on the Prairie
Sunday, December 24 2023
Holiday Special: Clay reads “Mr. Ingalls Meets Santa Claus” from Little House on the Prairie
- Published in Books
Wounded Knee Creek — Video Dispatch
Tuesday, December 05 2023
Clay visits the site of the tragic Wounded Knee Massacre in South Dakota where nearly 300 Lakota were slaughtered by soldiers of the U.S. Army on December 29, 1890.
- Published in Dispatches from the Road