Month: March 2022
Meet A Championship Hot Air Balloon Pilot
Imagine a competition where you fly a hot air balloon equipped with survival gear over snow capped mountains in the dead of winter. Perhaps it…
Flying a Craft That’s Seven Stories High
What’s seven stories high and can hold two million light bulbs. It may sound like the set up for a joke…but it’s a real part…
Volstead and the Cooperatives
Just about all of us have heard of farm cooperatives and no doubt, many of you listening to this use one or are a member…
Do You Know Andrew Volstead?
If you know American history the name Andrew Volstead may ring a bell. This US Representative from small town Minnesota has his name on two…
Granite Falls Arts
Drive into Granite Falls, Minnesota and you’ll soon see that this small town looks a little different than many. You can tell by looking at…
Building a Place for Art in Small Town America
In small towns in might be easy to say that things like the arts – galleries, music festivals, sculptors and such are just found in…
Be Wary of “Just Bid on It”
Gary says people should be wary of realtors who say, “Just make a bid on it.” If you do make a bid – even a…
The Biggest Steer on Record
He is the biggest steer on record – a beef that was over 16 feet in length and weighed well over two tons. In fact,…
No Beef Better than Ben
Beef producers are usually looking for an efficient, high quality steer to feed. Perhaps there was none better than Ben, for Ben grew faster than…
Belmont State Park
In the short stretch of the Mississppi River where Missouri borders Kentucky is a spot where Civil War strategy was so important, one side stretched…