American Countryside

What should you do with your time when you retire?  Tom and Wendy Beck took an adventure that resulted in the largest collection of its kind…

This is the type of store you can get lost in.  Not because the layout is a maze, but rather because you just don’t know what you may find around the next corner.  It’s a unique blend of new and nostalgic…

An average Wal-Mart SuperCenter has 140,000 items.  Steve Hartley runs a store much smaller in size, yet carries over 75,000 items, and he’s competed and succeeded in a town with a Wal-Mart for several decades…

You might think Steve is operating a business that died long ago.  After all, almost all the other similar stores have disappeared.  But Steve is not only surviving, he’s prospering…

His business is truly a time capsule.  When Matthew Edel died in 1940, the doors were closed and no one entered until decades later…

You most likely have never heard of Matthew Edel.  You might never have known him if not for the business he left behind…

She is probably the most well known Native American woman in our country’s history, a lady vital to the success of an incredible journey two centuries ago…

Sometimes what we wear tells us a bit about who a person might be.  In this area, the clothing styles of old may not tell the full story though…

Sometimes a person’s last name gives a clue to where their family originated from.  In this community, it may tell you which side of town they live on…

In southeast South Dakota you’ll find a community that celebrates some of the early settlers who homesteaded the area.  Their story was one of persecution and migration in Europe before finding a home here…