Category: Best of
Best of 2011: Barbara Law
Our best of 2012 continues today with a lady named Barbara who was a teenager living in Japan when World War II ended. Her country’s…
Best of 2011: The New Mallery Abbey
When people began attending funerals here, many had the exact same reaction. They mentioned that when they passed, they wanted a funeral just like that….
Best of 2011: Santa Anna
It’s been over 150 years since Illinois soldiers faced Santa Anna in the Mexican War. However, traces of that battle fought over 1500 miles to…
Best of 2011: Pioneers of Flight
Today a transcontinental flight from New York to L.A. might take about five hours. But do you know how long the first such flight took?…
Best of 2011: Helen Netherton
It’s a tradition the last week of each year we give you the “Best of the American Countryside.” And in 2012 we interviewed 110 year…
The Denver Sleigh Works
Santa needs his sleigh to make deliveries around the world and this man makes sure he’ll never run out of transportation…..
Leroy Keyes
In 1968, O.J Simpson won the Heisman Trophy, but it was this man who was runner-up in the Heisman balloting that year. His story is…
The New Madrid Earthquake
Although California and Alaska are most often the epicenter of major earthquakes in the United States, it was the Midwest that produced one of the…
The Ketch
When the silver ran out, the sheep moved in–thousands of them, in fact. This place became one of the largest sheep exporting cities in the…
Alaska’s Famous Iditarod
Some sports not only require thousands of hours of training, they also require a hefty financial investment. For those who run Alaska’s famous Iditarod, it…
