Author: Tom
Salt River Bay St. Croix
Columbus reached the Americas in 1492. He returned to Spain and put together a much larger party of ships and people to sail back to…
Christopher Columbus in U.S. Terriotry
You may remember that Columbus sailed the ocean blue in fourteen hundred and ninety-two. But what else do you know about the famous explorer? Today…
The Easternmost Point in U.S. Territory
Today we head to the easternmost point in United States territory. It’s a place that was inhabited for over 1500 years before Columbus ever showed…
The Quack Museum
We’ve all heard that some things are just too good to be true. That’s in a sense the theme to one man’s collection, It’s a…
The Minnesota Hoosiers Story
Most of us are familiar with the movie Hoosiers, the story of a small Indiana school that wins the state basketball championship against tremendous odds. …
The Story of Those Yellow Trucks
Depending on where you live, you may know this company, not by where it is located but rather by where its yellow trucks happen to…
Industry Impacting Southwest Minnesota
The land that surrounds a town often has a big impact on the types of industries that will spring up within the city limits. That…
San Juan Historic Site
This impressive fort has stood watch over the Atlantic for nearly 400 years. For some of those sentrys who scanned the ocean for invading navies,…
Amazing History in Puerto Rico
If you are looking for one of the first places Europeans explorers touched land in what is today the United States, you may need to…
Kafir Corn
You’ve probably never heard of Kafir Corn. However, turn back the clock a century and you may have been hearing about it on national radio. …
