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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…
The Toughest Place on the Basketball Court
It may just be the toughest position to play on the basketball court. The worst part is, no matter how well you play, you seem…
The First Thanksgiving
You may have thought Thanksgiving dates back to the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony in today’s state of Massachusetts. But there’s a farm that claims to…
The Buckhorn Saloon
When people can’t pay cash for the items they want, they may try to barter. That’s what this saloon did, and what they received became…
King of the Cowboys
Tom Mix was known as the King of the Cowboys, starring in over 300 films from 1910 – 1935. He might also be the king…
Smuggling Cash Under Your Skirt
When Union and Confederate sympathizers threatened to take this banker’s money, he did what any logical person would do–he dressed as a woman and began…
The Carthage, Illinois Jail
Jails aren’t supposed to be a thing of beauty, but the tan limestone walls of the 1839 jailhouse in Carthage, Illinois are attractive set against…
Living Through The War of the Worlds
It was Halloween Eve, 1938. Suddenly, the ghosts and goblins that were just an imagination in one’s mind became very real. Were there really ghostly…
A Bunker Hidden in Plain Site
In 1958 construction began on a new wing at the luxurious Greenbrier resort in West Virginia. What many people didn’t know was that project was…
Project Greek Island
It was called project Greek Island and it was just a part of this nation’s preparedness during the cold war. We go underground and make…
