Category: American Countryside
Peace Treaty Pageant
A three-day event dedicated to an old peace treaty may sound a bit odd. However, this town’s event draws thousands and can be traced back…
The Foiled Medicine Lodge Bank Robbery
About as long as there have been banks, there have been bank robberies. The one that took place in Medicine Lodge, KS over a century…
HardWork U
Today we hear a lot about the rising costs of higher education. While that may be true, students here have found that some hardwork on…
Carry Nation’s Hatchet Job
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,…
Carry Nation’s Crusade
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…
Medicine Lodge History
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…
A Quaker Community Determined to End Slavery
In the heart of the south, there was one Quaker community determined to not only bring an end to slavery, but to help former slaves…
Tuition is “Free” But Hardwork is Required
I recently visited a college campus unique from many others. It’s a place where students work on campus to pay for their education. A place…
The Mendenhall Plantation
We might imagine that prior to the Civil War, most large farming operations in the south used slave labor. Today, we take you to a…
When the Road Gets Moved
Major highways can be a very important way to get people to your business. What do you do when your competitor moves the road? Well…