Some called her the Queen of Wall Street.  Others said she was the Witch of Wall Street.  A trip to this town will help shed true light on a family that invested prudently and helped this place and many others…

She was one of the richest women in the world.  A quaker who some thought was simply too miserly in her ways, yet a shrewd investor who outperformed her male counterparts in a time when women where not accepted in most financial markets…

The Connecticut River is the largest in the northeastern U.S. flowing over 400 miles from Quebec to Long Island Sound.  The location of the first bridge and first canal on that river might surprise you…

It’s hard to find a road that runs straight for very long around Emminence, Missouri.  Perhaps that’s the charm that brings people today and the geography that reminded early Scotch and Irish immigrants of the homes they left…

Virginia Huston holds a unique distinction. She was the last child born in Pennytown. It’s a fact that holds much significance in her life and has influenced the work she does today. We’ll go to a place called Pennytown…

Establishing a new city can take plenty of planning. Now imagine trying to begin that new town when others are very motivated to stop you. It was the case for newly freed slaves in the years after the Civil War…

The accomplishment was so spectacular it is still remembered over a century later.  A cowboy journeyed thousands of miles to Cheyenne, Wyoming for a chance to become the world’s champion steer roper, and he would do it all with a borrowed horse after riding a ship and train for days…It’s the Best of 2024 with the American Countryside!

There perhaps has never been a homecoming dance like the 1975 Cadillac, Michigan version.  The students and the entire town were surprised when that year they didn’t just play music, they had a live performance by a very memorable group…It’s the Best of 2024 with the American Countryside!

Lancaster, Missouri is not a big town, but in the 1920s, the circuses came to town.  And yes, I did use the plural form of the word, because boy did the circus really come to town, for many days each year…It’s the Best of 2024 with the American Countryside!

This place isn’t really a town, yet it has its own zip code.  Sometimes it’s a bit of a game to see exactly how much or how little you can write on an envelope and still get a letter to arrive here.  Chances are, if you simply write the zip code, it will arrive at this place…It’s the Best of 2024 with the American Countryside!