American Countryside

Lots of people plant flowers in their yard and around their house.  That’s somewhat the case here, although in this town, the entire community comes together to help make it happen…

In Wessington Springs, South Dakota you’ll find a building that may seem out-of-place compared to the other homes and businesses in town.  However, a stop by this cottage will reveal an amazing story of a teacher who made a big trip and came home with an idea…

There is power in prayer.  For the residents of this city, the results of their prayers are still celebrated every year to commemorate an event that took place over two centuries ago…

What you know about this battle probably comes from a song you’ve heard.  So today we’ll “Take a little trip along with Colonel Jackson” to see how much is fact and fiction…

It was Christmas of 1814 and the residents of New Orleans knew the British were heading their way.  Soon they’d be on the ground intent on invading their city.  But could they repel the larger army and keep their freedom?

Before you can get a group to move toward a goal, you have to get them working together.  That was the biggest challenge facing this leader in his effort to save an American city from falling to the enemy…

We think of Yorktown as the place where the United States secured its independence.  However, this battle over three decades later kept the young nation from losing the freedoms for which it had fought…

He owned one of the largest ranches in Texas in the late 1800s and he might just have the biggest grave marker of any rancher in the state…

In Bay City, Texas you’ll find a place that displays artifacts from a doomed expedition that arrived here over three centuries ago…

The explorer LaSalle was determined to sail to North America and find the mouth of the Mississippi River.  He missed it by a few hundred miles and wound up here.  This is the story of that wayward explorer and the mark he left in the New World…