You can go to Springfield, Illinois and learn plenty about President Abraham Lincoln. His home and Presidential Library are there. But if you want to find the place where he got his start in politics, you’ll need to drive further south in the state……
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Ask an American who is the most famous architect in their country’s history and this man’s name is probably at the top of the list. However, many can’t tell you much about the man’s life or home…..
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Most people know him as a famous architect. They don’t realize his early years and perhaps the inspiration for his own home, grew from his life on the farm……
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As a Japanese teenager, Barbara was taught to defend herself from American soldiers arriving in her country. She ended up marrying one of them! But there were more far more surprises when she landed in the United States…..
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Probably all of us have heard stories about World War II. Perhaps we have friends or relatives who have shared first hand accounts. It’s rare, though, that we get to hear an account from someone who saw the war from the other side of the globe…..
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The ancient writing on this stone shows that Europeans had traveled to the interior of North America over a century before Columbus sailed to its coast…..
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It’s been over 150 years since IL soldiers faced Santa Ana in the Mexican War. However traces of that battle fought over 1500 miles to the south can still be found in the names of cities and the relics in museums……
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It’s not everyday you find a young man who hails from the nation of Ivory Coast attending a farm conference in western Oklahoma. What’s he doing there and why is it so important to his nation?
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The Northeastern United State is home to many long time, family owned resort motels. One of the most famous properties began with just a handful of guestrooms left over from a former paper mill operation…
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When U.S. soldiers crossed the Atlantic to fight in World War I, they not only preserved freedom, they also discovered something that transformed a working class neighborhood in Tampa, FL. What was the habit that caused a decline in a major industry?
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Mention Ybor City to someone in Tampa, Florida and they will probably tell you about all the great restaurants, bars and clubs you’ll find in the area. However, this neighborhood began over a century ago thanks to a man avoiding a death sentence…..
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One hundred fifty years ago, Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter. The man who returned fire for the Union, became far more famous for something unrelated to the war…..
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Imagine walking all the way from Arkansas to Mexico City. That’s what this expedition attempted to do. When they finally reached their destination nearly 70% had perished. The survivors were the first Europeans to see much of the interior of the United States…..
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It is hard to imagine the changes that took place in the American southeast during the 16th century. The Spanish came looking for gold. However, they brought something with them that transformed the area forever…..
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You may remember your history book told you of Ponce de Leon and his search for the “fountain of youth.” His trip to Florida actually cost him his life and the lives of other explorers who followed him……
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Thousands of visitors fly and drive to Tampa and Orlando, Florida every year. Daniel Stevens can tell you what life was like before all of the tourists arrived. He turns back the clock five hundred years…..
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Some consider this president to be the cause of the Great Depression. It was probably more a matter of being President at the wrong time in history, but soon you’ll learn the full story about the only president to hail from the Hawkeye State…..
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Today we say hello to our listeners on KWBG in Boone, IA. Folks there should stay alert! There’s a 90 year old man south of Boone riding a 1944 Indian motorcycle–and he’s been known to haul five people at once…..
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Chicago's Union Stockyards circa 1944
Harold Barrett has been farming and feeding cattle as long as he can remember–and that’s about 90 years so far. So how has the operation changed in those nine decades? For starters, he doesn’t have to take the train to sell the cattle anymore…..
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One of the first men to farm this plot of land used the nearby rocky overhang to shelter his herd of hogs. Then he discovered someone else had been living therefor over 10,000 years…..
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