For more than a century family vacations in the mountains of America often included a trip to a trout farm. Join Charlie Ford at English Mountain Trout Farm just down the road a spell from Forbidden Caverns on the outskirts of Sevierville, Tennessee in the heart of the Great Smokey Mountains for the rest of the story.

Correspondent Tom Wilmer met Mo Mao at a symposium in Chengdu, China a year ago. After returning home Mo and Tom kept up their friendship via Instagram—and that’s how Mo came to America to visit with Wilmer in Morro Bay. Mo serves as the Municipal Foreign Exchange Project Manager for the city of Chengdu (population 16M) in the Southwestern province of Sichuan adjacent to Tibet.

Join correspondent Tom Wilmer for a visit with Captain Chuck Myers aboard the historic M.V. Zumbrota , celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2018 and home ported today in Marina del Rey Harbor.

Discover why the midst of winter is an amazingly popular time to visit the Uppper Peninsula town of St. Ignas, Michigan. Tubing, sledding, skating, ice hockey, and snowmobiling are passionate pastimes with the locals and visitors alike.

Watching congressmen and senators stubbornly refuse to engage in cross-aisle politics reminded me of conversations with retired Republican Senator Ben Knighthorse Campbell , and retired Democratic Congressman Kika de la Garza back in 2013. Both touted their numerous friendships and partnerships with representatives from the opposite side of the isle. Ben Knighthorse Campbell ’s political career commenced when he was elected to the Colorado State Legislature as a Democrat in 1982. Following two

Watching congressmen and senators stubbornly refuse to engage in cross isle politics reminded me of conversations with retired Republican Senator Ben Knighthorse Campbell , and retired Democratic Congressman Kika de la Garza back in 2013. Both touted their numerous friendships and partnerships with representatives from the opposite side of the isle. Ben Knighthorse Campbell’s political career commenced when he was elected to the Colorado State Legislature as a Democrat in 1982. Following two

The Lorraine Motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968 serves today as the powerful anchor of the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis , Tennessee . Faith Morris, External Affairs Officer visits with correspondent Tom Wilmer.

BREAK NIGHT is a police thriller movie made for less than $50,000 in eight days (with on-location filming in Oakland, California). A conversation with Producer, Barbara Barrielle .

Steve Koch reports from Arkansas about the legendary musician Dan Hicks : Dan Hicks was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, but his family moved to Santa Rosa, California when he was five. Hicks spent most of his life in northern California, where he honed his chops and became a ground breaking folk jazz bandleader.

A visit with the brewmaster and assistant brewmaster at Fredericksburg Brewing Company in downtown Fredericksburg, Texas. Brewmaster Rick Green specializes in old-world German style beers, in celebration of Fredericksburg’s German heritage.