Where did America get its name? Let's enjoy this part of our heritage together.

This series is presented by Reed Simonsen & Ron Garrard and is based on the book series by the same name available on Amazon and at various other retailers. The artwork "The Prayer at Valley Forge" by Arnold Friberg is used by permission of Friberg Fine Arts.

While the great continent that today we call America has always been inhabited, the mighty empires of Europe knew nothing about it.

We believe that all of that began to change when in the year 1000 A.D., a Norseman born in Iceland sailed to the coast of what we call modern Canada. His name was Leif son of Eric the Red, one of the noble Vikings!

This series is presented by Reed Simonsen & Ron Garrard and is based on the book series by the same name available on Amazon and at various other retailers. The artwork "The Prayer at Valley Forge" by Arnold Friberg is used by permission of Friberg Fine Arts.

With Queen Isabella's aid and a little money which Columbus himself had, three ships were fitted out. These were not tall, stout ships such as you see anchored at our seaports with their broad sails and wide decks. They were small, frail craft, not so large as those you may see today sailing up and down rivers and small lakes.

On Friday, August 3rd, 1492, three small vessels, the Santa Maria, the Pinta, and the Nina, with twenty men on board, set sail from Spain.

This series is presented by Reed Simonsen & Ron Garrard and is based on the book series by the same name available on Amazon and at various other retailers. The artwork "The Prayer at Valley Forge" by Arnold Friberg is used by permission of Friberg Fine Arts.

Friendless and without money, Christopher Columbus, with his little son Diego, travelled from place to place, always seeking someone who would understand his belief that the earth was not flat.

Years and years rolled by; and Columbus had gained nothing but a worldwide name of being a fool or an insane man. Men sneered at him, boys hooted at him in the street. Surely it was a brave man who could endure all this for the sake of right. But it is always so; as you grow older and read larger histories than these, you will find that seldom has a great man or woman brought to the world any great new truth, that ignorant and superstitious people did not scoff at it and make the life of the brave discoverer one of wretchedness and persecution.

 He needed someone to help him get an audience with Queen Isabella of Spain!

This series is presented by Reed Simonsen & Ron Garrard and is based on the book series by the same name available on Amazon and at various other retailers. The artwork "The Prayer at Valley Forge" by Arnold Friberg is used by permission of Friberg Fine Arts.

This boy, as every American knows, was Christopher Columbus, the man who discovered America for what we call “the Old World.”

It is said that, living as he did in this little seaport town, he was generally, when not at school, to be found standing about the wharves watching the great ships come in, and listening to the marvelous stories that the sailors told.

"I shall be a sailor!" he would say to himself as he listened; and then, like all other small lads, he longed to grow big and strong and old. "When I'm a man, I shall be a sailor!"

This series is presented by Reed Simonsen & Ron Garrard and is based on the book series by the same name available on Amazon and at various other retailers. The artwork "The Prayer at Valley Forge" by Arnold Friberg is used by permission of Friberg Fine Arts.

On April 10th, 1606, James I of England issued the 1606 First Virginia Charter, which created the Virginia Company, authorizing Englishmen to colonize the Americas, particularly Virginia (named in honor of both the Virgin Mary and his predecessor, Queen Elizabeth the first).

It is extremely important to understand this legal charter because it influenced the thinking of the colonists. Sloppy courses in American History start with the colonists’ anger over King George the third’s tyrannical arrogance to tax the colonies without their consent, but they fail to explain why that was illegal in the first place. Soon you will know...

This series is presented by Reed Simonsen & Ron Garrard and is based on the book series by the same name available on Amazon and at various other retailers. The artwork "The Prayer at Valley Forge" by Arnold Friberg is used by permission of Friberg Fine Arts.

You, my fellow countrymen countrywomen, sons and daughters, Americans, you have a priceless treasure…  Your American Heritage. 

This show will celebrate the countless men, women and children who over the past 250 years pledged their lives, liberty and sacred honor to a grand experiment in freedom — a revolution that changed the world forever!

Students of true history know that men have been subjected to tyranny for most of human history. These hear Benjamin Franklin’s frankness when he said to his young country, “We have given you a Republic if you can keep it.”

That your God given right to Constitutional Freedom not be lost, is our prayer and hope for you.

So how did we get here? Let’s find out together!

Let Freedom Ring again and again…

This series is presented by Reed Simonsen & Ron Garrard and is based on the book series by the same name available on Amazon and at various other retailers. The artwork "The Prayer at Valley Forge" by Arnold Friberg is used by permission of Friberg Fine Arts.