Category: American Countryside
The Field That Became Bakersfield
It was just an ordinary field until the winter of 1862. That’s when floodwaters pushed onto the land and a town sprang up that would…
More Days of Rain That Noah
You’ve heard of Noah’s flood. This city had it worse it terms of numbers of straight days of rain. What resulted is an event still…
The Founder of the FFA
Many of us have worn the blue and gold jacket of the Future Farmers of America – the FFA. Today I’ll take you to the…
Museums Within a Museum
Did you ever imagine you might turn a collection into your own museum? This man has museums within museums. In fact, you might call him…
The Harold Bell Wright Museum
There’s a good chance you’ve never heard of Harold Bell Wright. He was one of the top author’s a century ago, selling books at an…
The World’s Largest Toy Museum
The parents of every young kids, and some old ones, know they love their toys. Tom Beck set out to put as many of those…
The Largest Collection of Its Kind
What should you do with your time when you retire? Tom and Wendy Beck took an adventure that resulted in the largest collection of its…
Dick’s Five and Ten
This is the type of store you can get lost in. Not because the layout is a maze, but rather because you just don’t know…
Succeeding For Decades
An average Wal-Mart SuperCenter has 140,000 items. Steve Hartley runs a store much smaller in size, yet carries over 75,000 items, and he’s competed and…
A Prospering Business in Branson
You might think Steve is operating a business that died long ago. After all, almost all the other similar stores have disappeared. But Steve is…
