You’ve heard of the gold at Fort Knox, and while we can’t go inside the vault, we do know much about the beginnings of that…

During the depths of the US Depression in the 1930s, the federal government took several steps to spur the economy.  One was forcing the sales…

Sometimes people will use secret codes to keep vital information from slipping into the wrong hands.  General Patton used such a code in World War…

When the U.S. adopted prohibition in 1920, most alcohol production ceased, but when production resumed in the 1930s, it seems some of the old recipes,…

You can still find some old deeds that use a large tree to mark a property boundary.  Such was the case for Brent Goodin’s farm. …

For centuries, people have recognized the natural beauty along the border of Tennessee and North Carolina. We call it the Smokie mountains, but Steven Fananda’s…

It’s only five stories tall, but it might as well be a skyscraper when you consider the view you get from the top.  It’s one…

It’s called Docville Farms, a working farm that is really just a portion of the vast acreage owned by one family.  Yet it was that…

The plantations east of New Orleans once grew indigo as a cash crop.  Today, some of that land has been swallowed by development, or lost…

You’ve most likely never heard his name, but you’ve likely heard his music.  His family tried to dissuade him from majoring in music, but it…