Category: American Countryside
Farm Technology 900 Years in the Making
Just about every farmstead had one at one time – many remain, although few still perform the task they were originally built to do. That…
Bigger Than Life – Ethan Allen
Sometimes history makes people seem bigger than life. That’s certainly true for a man named Ethan Allen and his band of Green Mountain Boys. So…
We Need Cannons
It was one of the most important forts of the late 1700s and interestingly, it changed hands twice without a shot being fired. But it…
The Bishop who Persuaded Lincoln
The situation was bad, for all involved. But what was about to take place in Minnesota was an injustice to the Dakota who the US…
A New Bishop For a New State
Henry Whipple perhaps had no plans to move west as a young man. But when he married, his wife encouraged him to become active in…
Where the Straight Cannon Rivers Unite
Today the meeting of the Straight and Cannon Rivers is probably not as important as it was 200 years ago, when Native Americans and frontiersman…
The Founder of Faribault
He was born on the frontier, and the frontier life is perhaps all he ever knew. So it should be no surprise that when Alexander…
Cemeteries without Headstones
Cemeteries usually have headstones to make the spot of loved ones who have passed. But this civilization used something far more elaborate…a process that is…
Long Before Columbus…
History on this continent is young when compared to places like Europe…but that mentality is to forget about the centuries people lived here before the…
The Non-Electric Shopping Mall
If you lived without electricity…either by choice or simply because of the location you lived…where would you go to find modern conveniences that didn’t need…
