American Countryside

Some people plant flowers around their home every Spring.  Now imagine you need to plant 70,000 or more of them.  That’s what takes place here each year…

In the 1920s there was an effort to build a memorial along the international border between the U.S. and Canada.  The idea was a park that commemorates the peace between the two nations.  What resulted can be found along a relatively unpopulated area along that border line…

It’s one of the best known songs of that past century.  In fact, one president said it was his favorite.  But then a lawsuit stopped it from being played…

You may not fancy yourself a poet, and you may have forgotten a poem called My Western Home.  But in a moment you’ll find that you do know those words quite well…

The name Farmers Branch sums up the beginning of this place.  A rich ag community along a north Texas stream.  Today the landscape has changed…but you can still find those roots…

Many people like to get popcorn when the go to the movies.  Initially though, theatres banned the snack because of the mess.  A visit here will share that story and much, much more with some rare and unique items related to our love of popcorn…

In Marion, Ohio you’ll find a museum that is the only one devoted to this in the world.  That fact is interesting in light of just how popular this has been in this country for well over a century…

One, five, ten, twenty?  Now imagine there were more denominations and dozens of different types of bills in circulation. What you would have is a major mess and that’s exactly what banking was like in the 1850s…

When most of us hear of Fort Knox, we think of gold.  While gold is there, there is much more to the story, for this is a military post with a very long and storied history…

Whether you have any or not, many of us are fascinated by gold.  It’s the storyline of many a tv show and movie.  Where can you find the biggest vault of it?  The answer may surprise you…