Home is the Town Dump

For 24 years Suzi Valadez crossed the Mexican border to feed and clothe  2-thousand children who lived in a town dump.  Their parents pay $10 down to buy a lot.  Another $60 to build a home.  They then can earn $2.50 a day sorting garbage. ...

Birth of the Ice cream Cone

 A lot of what we love today —ice cream cones, hamburgers, hot dogs, peanut butter, iced tea, the club sandwich, cotton candy — were all introduced in a single summer in 1904.  Americans also got their first glimpse of the Olympic games and the Democrats...

Nightmare Ranch

Jerry Owens surrounds himself with the sounds he likes to hear.  Eating.  He runs the Black Beauty Ranch, a place with a storybook name built from a nightmare.  It is a haven for nearly 5-thousand animals each year.  They are rescued from ghettos...

Beehive Telephone

To find this business, you go west from Salt Lake City, Utah.   Turn left and drive for the rest of your life.  Along about middle age, you may pass a battered 1951 Ford Installer moving among the tumbleweeds.  That is the Beehive telephone...

Europe’s First Soul Food

Leroy Haynes has led a life that ought to begin, “Once upon a time…” He went to school with Al Capone’s kids.  Played in the old Negro baseball league.  Was an All American football player at Morehouse College in Atlanta.  Made movies with Bridget...