Summit Town

Folks in Polk, Nebraska prefer to get their news the old fashioned way — in a newspaper, the Polk Progress.  Its editor Norris Alfred is the only Democrat in the county.  Why do people buy his newspaper?  “I play poker with a lot of them.  And I...

Four Corners

There was a time in America where neighbors were considered part of your wealth.  In Four Corners, Louisiana, they still are.  Hardly a family here makes $10,000 a year.  But together, they had rebuilt eleven homes.  They linked up with trade...

What She Cannot Live Without

Doris Travis’s talent brought her to Broadway twice.  The first time she was 14.  Doris did something no other 14-year-old  had ever done.  She danced her way into one of the most popular shows in New York City.  It took her more than twenty...

Dancing into Memory

 In Radio City Music Hall, the years do not flow back into the past.  They gather invisibly around you.  Each Christmas the Rockettes dance into our memories.  Doris Carie was a Rockette at 17, the youngest girl in the line.  They lived in the...

TV’s Birthplace

Television did not begin in New York or Los Angeles.  It was the brainchild of a fourteen-year-old farm boy, the vision of a fellow with a funny name:  Philo T. Farnsworth.  Philo was plowing a field on the family farm near Rigby, Idaho, day dreaming...