My Western Home

You may not fancy yourself a poet, and you may have forgotten a poem called My Western Home.  But in a moment you’ll find that you do know those words quite well...

A President's Favorite Song

It’s one of the best known songs of that past century.  In fact, one president said it was his favorite.  But then a lawsuit stopped it from being played...

Farmers Branch, Texas

The name Farmers Branch sums up the beginning of this place.  A rich ag community along a north Texas stream.  Today the landscape has changed…but you can still find those roots

The Wyandotte Popcorn Museum

A Museum for Something Popular

In Marion, Ohio you’ll find a museum that is the only one devoted to this in the world.  That fact is interesting in light of just how popular this has been in this country for well over a century...

Old State Bank Currency

One, five, ten, twenty?  Now imagine there were more denominations and dozens of different types of bills in circulation. What you would have is a major mess and that's exactly what banking was like in the 1850s...

Inside Fort Knox

One, five, ten, twenty?  Now imagine there were more denominations and dozens of different types of bills in circulation. What you would have is a major mess and that's exactly what banking was like in the 1850s...

The Biggest Vault of All

Whether you have any or not, many of us are fascinated by gold.  It’s the storyline of many a tv show and movie.  Where can you find the biggest vault of it?  The answer may surprise you...

Where Is the Nation's Gold?

Everyone knows that much of the nation’s gold is at Fort Knox.  Or is it?  That’s the question many wondered a few decades back...

A Heavily Fortified Treasury

You’ve heard of the gold at Fort Knox, and while we can’t go inside the vault, we do know much about the beginnings of that heavily fortified treasury and its contents.  We visit with a  man who lives just next door so to speak...