Month: May 2022
A Wisconsin Dairy with History Before the Civil War
Many farms have a long legacy of working the land. Just outside Waupaca, Wisconsin you can find a dairy that traces its history to the…
Coming Home to the Place That Held You Captive
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…
Camp Algona Iowa
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…
Jubilee Days in Shenandoah, Iowa
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…
The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread
Sliced bread was born, but there’s much more to this story, including how the new product was received and where we came up with that…
The One Thing in Common with Bread
Go down a supermarket aisle and you can find lots of different types of bread. White bread, wheat, honey oat, the list goes on and…
Holbrook, Arizona – The Backdrop for Cars
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. …
An Odd Invitation
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…
Silver Moon Plaza
On the north side of the square in Chillicothe, MO you’ll find a small park where some buildings once stood. It’s called Silver Moon Plaza. …
The Horse with a Gas Mask
There is a lot of important military artifacts in this museum and Dr. Robert Smith can tell you why each is very important to the…