American Countryside

You’ve perhaps heard of the wise old owl.  But are owls really that wise?  And where did we get the idea the bird possessed better...

Sometimes a small idea turns into a very large thing.  That was the case in the town of Houston, Minnesota.  They didn’t realize they were...

In Dover, Ohio you will find a collection of masterpieces.  They are carved scenes, mostly tied to the railroad, that one man created for people...

Ernest Warther was just a young boy in charge of keeping an eye on the cows.  What he did while tending the herd turned into...

She served as Nebraska’s first female U.S. Senator.  She also managed a large sandhills ranch and had quite a collection of one item that still...

In northern Nebraska you’ll find a Sandhills ranch that dates to the late 1800s.  The couple who lived here met quite by happenstance and their...

Imagine a building project that involved moving 7000 large stones across the Atlantic Ocean to reconstruct a building that was about 400 years old. That’s...

Most of us after heard of the phrase, “the iron curtain” to describe the communist countries of eastern Europe during the Cold War. That phrase...

Just two months after the Allies won the European theatre of World War II, the leader of Great Britain, Winston Churchill, lost reelection. The now...

If there is a museum to Spam, well Reed Andrew thought there should certainly be a museum to this.  After all, a lot of people...

A lot of people enjoy root beer.  But how did a drink that contains no alcohol wind up with beer in the title?  And exactly...

My in-laws had been telling me about a place called Angel Fire for many years.  They make an annual trip there to remember friends and...

When Doc Westfall lost a son to the Vietnam War, the event changed his plans for the future.  His new dream was one that honored...

The Westfalls had dreams of a ranch resort where they could retire.  Then tragedy struck and the plans for the ranch became a dream that...

Did a man in Texas build an aircraft that flew a full year before the Wright Brothers plane?  There are some say that he did...

They are called the Untouchables.  However, you may have not heard their story if not for one year this man spent in a small town...

Cleveland was a city dealing with a major crime problem in the 1930s and 40s.  The man they brought here to fight crime was someone...

When the 18th amendment to the US Constitution made alcohol illegal, many began to supply the drink illegally.  It was just one of the products...

In south central Kansas you’ll find a place long important to Native Americans – a place where they and later white settlers would meet to...

This lady was known to back up her words with her hatchet.  And that hatchet is still well known over a century later.  In fact,...