American Countryside

We all know Custer and his men met their fate at the Little Big Horn.  However, a chapter of the story you’ve probably not heard is how a town in Kentucky played an important role in that event…

One day they would both become president of the United States, but when the two spent the summer in the same town passing each other on the street, you wonder if they ever noticed each other…

If in heaven the streets are paved in gold, then perhaps this town was pretty close to paradise.  For a century ago, their streets were literally paved in gold.  In fact, there was so much gold in the streets they eventually dug them up to get their hands on more of it…

You can buy a lot of things out of a vending machine, but this town had perhaps the most unique such device anywhere in the nation.  For at this vending machine, you could get the paperwork filed for your own divorce…

Sometimes people and towns like to go against the grain and live life differently.  For the folks in Corrine, Utah that was definitely the case when it was founded over a century ago.  In fact, it was such a unique town in the state…some wanted it to leave its borders…

What does it mean to “muster”?  For those living in Colonial times, that word was very important and this spot was one of the most important in that cause for freedom…

The message was clear – lay down your arms and stop the rebellion against the British Crown or otherwise be prepared to have your cities burned and your lives in peril at the hand of an advancing army…

In one small town in southwestern Virginia you’ll find a place that at first glance may appear to be just a park.  Take a stop and look around and you’ll realize the importance of this place to the American Revolution and beyond…

The flag of the President of the Unites States shows an eagle holding an olive branch and arrows.  President Harry Truman wanted to add something to that symbol and may have just done so not for a long time friend who convinced him it was a bad idea…

June 14, 1777 was an important date in American history because of a short resolution that was passed that impacts life today…