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Heisman Winner Bruce Smith
December 7th 1941. It was a day of travel for this standout college football player, but as the events of Pearl Harbor unfolded, he knew…
Celebrating Minnesota’s Only Heisman Winner
Today we say hello to our listeners on KDHL in Faribault, MN. Listeners there know there is one athlete that put this town on the…
The Moonshine Cafe
Imagine serving hundreds of people out of a small store in very rural Illinois. That’s the setting that takes place many a summer day, a…
A Little Bit of Moonshine
If I told you people were traveling hundreds of miles to this spot for moonshine, you’d probably think there was some illegal alcohol flowing in…
The Boyhood Home of Wyatt Earp
Mention the name Wyatt Earp and folks often quickly think of the shootout at the OK Corral. You certainly aren’t wrong for having those images,…
The Pella Skyline
Some cities have skyscrapers that dominate the skyline. When you live in a small town, it could well be the water tower that is the…
Planting 300,000 Flowers
Some people plant flowers each Spring to spruce up the place they live or work. Now image you have 300,000 flowers to plant. That’s the…
Creating a New Home in a New Land
When about 800 folks wearing strange clothes begin crossing the nation, they are bound to get noticed. That was the case for this group that…
The A.D. Makepeace Farm
It’s hard to imagine a farm growing a crop from vines that are over a century old. But that’s exactly the case here. Some of…
Flooding the Fields
Most farmers want to avoid a flood that drenches their crops. Here, it’s just part of the process to keep the vines growing and getting…
