School of the Air

Long before Covid-19 made virtual classrooms a necessity, students in Australia’s vast Outback were learning via two-way radio.  The Warwick family built an extraordinary life in that dessert on not much more than hope. Their ranch sits on some of the driest...

The Trouble We All Live With

A 6-year-old girl  became the first African American child to desegregate an all-white elementary school in the  South. Ruby Bridges always said her mother was the hero of the moment. She put her family and her husband’s job in jeopardy to open schools for...

Caring for All

Ruby Walker is an inexhaustible wisp of a woman who cleans 27 houses a week.  Five houses a day.  Two on Saturdays.  That has been her routine for two decades, since her husband died.  Most are big homes, as you might expect, but Ruby also works...

Old Man on the Mountain

Niels Nielsen volunteered to sling from a slender thread of steel half a mile high to repair a Great Stone Face in New Hampshire.  His father once worked on the Statue of Liberty.  Niel liked to think he carried a torch, too.   Folks gathered below to...

Who’s the Savage?

You remember Sitting Bull who helped defeat General Custer at the Little Big Horn?  He was a Great War Chief of the Lakota Sioux Indian tribe. He was also a man who cared deeply about children.  On his trip to New York City with Buffalo Bill’s Wild...