Month: December 2022
A Small Town Grocery Store
If you live in or near a very small town, it’s a big blow when you lose your grocery store. It’s rare that one ever…
You’ve Got a Friend in Friend
Sometimes you need a good friend. In this case, the good friend is the entire town. After all, it’s in their name…
Blue & Gold Sausage
This FFA advisor found a fund raiser that was so successful, he had to quit teaching just to operate the new business. It’s a venture…
Kidder Massacre
Today messages can be relayed to a military patrol within a split second. But in the 1860s, it took a scouting party to track down…
The Goodland Flying Machine
The first operational helicopters took flight in the 1930s. Widespread production of the aircraft didn’t occur for another decade after that. However, inventors were…
The Cowboy War
It was proclaimed the Cowboy War by national newspapers. It was truly a battle that required some of the biggest names in law enforcement to…
Fighting for the County Seat
I’ve heard several stories over the years about towns fighting to be proclaimed the county seat in the early years of settlement. But in western…
Work That Saved the Lives of Millions
In an era when most farm boys completed eighth grade at most, this family saw something in their son that led them to help him…
The Old Farmhouse That Impacted the World
The old farmhouse that sits about a dozen miles south of Cresco, Iowa that probably appears a lot like other homes built in the Depression…
Serving from the Civil War to WWII
She was built in 1854 and one hundred years later she was still serving in the U.S. navy. We get the story of a ship…