The historic jail in Boonville, Missouri was built to house those convicted of crimes in the county. However, it also housed others, not convicted of a crime, but held for another purpose…..
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It’s hard to imagine being held as a prisoner of war and then, after the war, immigrating to the country that held you captive. That’s exactly what happened on many occasions during WW II and today we go to one of the towns familiar with that story…..
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Over the years, you’ve heard us feature some towns in the heartland of America that served as POW camps during WW II. Today, we head to north-central Iowa where a group of folks keep alive the story of the prisoners, guards and the farm families were many of those POWs worked…..
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Many people would love to live in the Austrian Alps. This couple decided the wide open spaces of eastern Arizona were the better place to be. So why did this couple move here and open a business?
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Imagine hosting a breakfast so large that you needed to buy pancake flour by the boxcar. That’s exactly what happened here. So why was this small town feeding such large crowds and attracting some of the biggest names in entertainment?
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Today we say hello to our friends in Southwest Iowa. Folks there have been tuning into their radios for decades to hear the story of two rival nursery and seed operations who built their own radio stations to reach their thousands of customers…..
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Today we’re back in Hutchinson, KS and say hello to our listeners on KWBW. I can attest to what folks there already know…the space museum here will rival any you’ll find elsewhere in the nation…..
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Sometimes movies do more than just bring in dollars at the box office. They occasionally have an impact on the place where they were filmed. In a sense, this movie set stretched nearly 2500 miles and today the backdrop of that animated movie is still bringing people from around the world to places some thought dead…..
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Today’s program comes from the studios of WCAZ Radio in Carthage, Illinois. It’s a place with a long tradition in broadcasting…a place that’s been on the air for so many decades that they originally made radios just so people could hear their signal…..
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There are many towns in the western U.S. that had rough and tumble beginnings. They are places where it was sometimes difficult to determine exactly who was in charge of peace and justice. So it shouldn’t be surprising that one town went so far as to send out invitations to a hanging…..
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In the 1880s Junction City, Kansas built “The Jewel of the Prairie,” a grand opera house to serve the growing community. They also built a firehouse to protect the buildings of the area. However, the location of the opera house and firehouse combined to cause quite a problem in 1898…..
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There are a lot of important military artifacts in this museum and Dr. Robert Smith can tell you why each is very important to the development of the American military. However, there is one interesting exhibit that seems to draw a lot of stares. If you’ve never seen a horse wearing a gas mask, join us on this interesting look at the U.S. Cavalry…..
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It was transatlantic service at its finest. An airship almost three football fields long cruising at the then blazing speed of 82 miles per hour. Today is the 65th anniversary of the tragedy that would bring this form of commercial travel to a close…..
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Today we say hello to our listeners on KJCK in Junction City, KS. Listeners there know the long-standing affiliation this community has had with the nation’s military…..
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This plane made but one flight – a trip that lasted about one mile just a few yards off of the surface. Yet, it remains one of the most historic and most visited aircraft in the nation. Perhaps that’s because it was the largest ever constructed…..
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It was a behemoth of a plane…the H-4 Hercules…an aircraft with the largest wingspan of any every built. But how and why was it every built?
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It was the most famous of escape attempts at Alcatraz. A fact that no one has ever seen the three inmates who made the attempt keeps the story alive still today…..
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Farms come in many shapes and sizes, raising crops, livestock and many other combinations. But in central Arkansas, there is a centuries old farm that has been raising an unusual herd that people just keep coming back to see…..
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At one time, Boston Corbett was one of the most widely known men in the nation. He was the man who killed Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth. So what led that man to travel to the state of Kansas and later disappear without a trace?
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John Wilkes Boothe shot President Lincoln in April of 1865. For nearly two weeks there was a manhunt to bring the assassin to justice. Boothe was shot and killed, despite orders to take him alive. What happened to the man who shot Boothe?
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