Category: Best of
The Clover of 4-H
The 4-H Program is now over a century old and many people recognize the familiar green clover that symbolizes those well-known clubs. But the story…
Thousand Foot Long Docks
They are some of the largest boat docks you’ll ever see. Not mere spots on a lake from which to fish, but rather one thousand…
Best of 2014 – The Rights to a Cowboy Song
In the 1930s a cowboy song began to get quite a bit of air time on radio stations. But suddenly the music stopped, when one…
Best of 2014 – Burning the White House
It was an act that seemed unthinkable. Another nation’s army marched into the United States capital and burned its most important government buildings to the…
Best of 2014 – The Navajo Codetalker
When World War II began, many men here in Navajo country volunteered for the armed forces. Some of those men were asked to use their…
Best of 2014 – The Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand
It’s difficult for many of us to name many specific battles or events in World War I. We may have learned the war began when…
Best of 2014 – A Permanent Trip to Luckenbach
Hayden Whittington began driving to Luckenbach, Texas before most people had ever heard of it. He remembers the days when you might be the only…
The Holiday Christmas Store
If Santa Claus needed a place to buy all of his decorations, this would be it. It’s big business in small town Michigan and it…
Twas The Night Before Christmas
We know the words of “’twas the night before Christmas;” words that helped solidify the image of Santa over 200 years ago. Here’s the the…
The First Thanksgiving Feast
You may have thought Thanksgiving dates back to the pilgrims of Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, but this place claims to have held the first feast…
