Category: American Countryside
Tom Beck’s Collecting
What should you do with your time when you retire? Tom and Wendy Beck took an adventure that resulted in the largest collection of its…
Sacagawea
She is probably the most well known Native American woman in our country’s history…a lady vital to the success of an incredible journey two centuries…
10,000 Bottle of Soda Pop
This is the type of store you can get lost in. Not because the layout is a maze, but rather because you just don’t know…
Revival of the Dime Store
An average Wal-Mart SuperCenter has 142,000 items. Steve Hartley runs a store much smaller in size, yet carries over 75,000 items…and he’s competed and succeeded…
Dick’s Five and Ten
You might think Steve is operating a business that died long ago. After all, almost all the other similar stores have disappeared. But Steve is…
Hanging on to the “Bitter End”
If you told Columbus’ crew to hang on to the “bitter end,” they probably would not take you up on that offer. That’s because the…
Columbus Day, Today
We’ve all learned that Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 14 hundred and 92. We know he had three ships, the largest of which was…
The Shop that Time Forgot
His business is truly a time capsule. When Matthew Edel died in 1940, the doors were closed and no one entered until decades later…
The Matthew Edel Blacksmith Shop
You most likely have never heard of Matthew Edel. You might never have known him if not for the business he left behind…
A Meal in Meers
Just northwest of Lawton…in the Wichita Mountains of Okalahoma, you will find a town named Meers. Its one business is a restaurant that has people…