Posted in American Countryside Texas

The Ezekiel Airship

Did a man in Texas build an aircraft that flew a full year before the Wright Brothers plane?  There are some say that he did…

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Posted in American Countryside Pennsylvania

The Untouchables

They are called the Untouchables.  However, you may have not heard their story if not for one year this man spent in a small town…

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Posted in American Countryside Pennsylvania

Fighting Cleveland’s Crime Problem

Cleveland was a city dealing with a major crime problem in the 1930s and 40s.  The man they brought here to fight crime was someone…

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Posted in American Countryside Pennsylvania

One Man Determined to Stop Capone

When the 18th amendment to the US Constitution made alcohol illegal, many began to supply the drink illegally.  It was just one of the products…

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Posted in American Countryside Kansas

Medicine Lodge

In south central Kansas you’ll find a place long important to Native Americans – a place where they and later white settlers would meet to…

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Posted in American Countryside Kansas

The Lady With the Hatchet

This lady was known to back up her words with her hatchet.  And that hatchet is still well known over a century later.  In fact,…

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Posted in American Countryside Kansas

The After-Sermon Lecture

If you attended David Nation’s church in Medicine Lodge, Kansas, many would say the real sermon began when David’s wife began the after-sermon lecture…

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Posted in American Countryside California

Driving the Cannonball Run

Many of us love road trips.  Probably nothing we’ve experienced compares to what Jeff and Alexis Popick recently did.  They ran the Cannonball Run making…

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Posted in American Countryside California

A Father and Daughter Trip

Many people decide to make the trip of a lifetime and drive their car from one coast to another.  Now imagine making that drive as…

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Posted in American Countryside California

That Crazy Cross Country Race

In the early 1980s the movie “Cannonball Run” hit movie theatres.  Although the comedy is several decades old, many have seen it and remember the…

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