Imagine a competition where you fly a hot air balloon equipped with survival gear over snow capped mountains in the dead of winter.  Perhaps it...

What’s seven stories high and can hold two million light bulbs.  It may sound like the set up for a joke…but it’s a real part...

Just about all of us have heard of farm cooperatives and no doubt, many of you listening to this use one or are a member...

If you know American history the name Andrew Volstead may ring a bell.  This US Representative from small town Minnesota has his name on two...

Drive into Granite Falls, Minnesota and you’ll soon see that this small town looks a little different than many.  You can tell by looking at...

In small towns in might be easy to say that things like the arts – galleries, music festivals, sculptors and such are just found in...

Gary says people should be wary of realtors who say, “Just make a bid on it.”  If you do make a bid – even a...

He is the biggest steer on record – a beef that was over 16 feet in length and weighed well over two tons.  In fact,...

Beef producers are usually looking for an efficient, high quality steer to feed.  Perhaps there was none better than Ben, for Ben grew faster than...

In the short stretch of the Mississppi River where Missouri borders Kentucky is a spot where Civil War strategy was so important, one side stretched...