Category: American Countryside
Doc Westfall’s War Memorial
When Doc Westfall lost a son to the Vietnam War, the event changed his plans for the future. His new dream was one that honored…
Rancher Turned Veterans Memorial
The Westfalls had dreams of a ranch resort where they could retire. Then tragedy struck and the plans for the ranch became a dream that…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
