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A Truly Special Letter
Not many people write letters these days, opting for emails, texts and the like. But this letter is one that is truly special – a…
A Valuable Letter from a Penpal
Did you ever save a letter that was important to you? This lady did. It was a nice letter from a far away place –…
A Penpal in Danville, Iowa
Way back when I was in school our classes sometimes had penpals. That was the case for this school in Danville, Iowa. What began as…
The Lower Sioux Agency
It’s called the Lower Sioux Agency. You can still find a few of the historic buildings near Morton, Minnesota. The story told here is one…
The Lower Sioux
As pioneers of Europeans decent moved westward, the once large spaces that many Native American nations once called home were reduced in size. And with…
Salt River Bay St. Croix
Columbus reached the Americas in 1492. He returned to Spain and put together a much larger party of ships and people to sail back to…
Christopher Columbus in U.S. Terriotry
You may remember that Columbus sailed the ocean blue in fourteen hundred and ninety-two. But what else do you know about the famous explorer? Today…
The Easternmost Point in U.S. Territory
Today we head to the easternmost point in United States territory. It’s a place that was inhabited for over 1500 years before Columbus ever showed…
The Quack Museum
We’ve all heard that some things are just too good to be true. That’s in a sense the theme to one man’s collection, It’s a…
The Minnesota Hoosiers Story
Most of us are familiar with the movie Hoosiers, the story of a small Indiana school that wins the state basketball championship against tremendous odds. …