Elusive Fireflies of Light

Jake Hoover was looking for gold in Yogo Creek. He discovered something more. What little gold he found was cluttered with blue stones. He tossed them into a cigar box and sent them off to Tiffany’s. The New York jewelers fired back a check. The old prospector...

Kids Soap Opera

If you want to know what’s happening at Henderson school, you don’t join the Yearbook staff.  You watch a Soap Opera at lunch time.  Each Friday, the kids in the cafeteria share a second carton of milk with “The Growing Years.” ...

California’s First Surfers

Sliding through a hurricane of surf.  Heartbeats clock the distance.  This sport can make a young person old or an old man young again. Look beneath their wrinkles, you’ll find the beginnings of California’s surfing.   Sliding through a hurricane of surf. ...

Dancing with Hope

Ne Sin was born in a palace with a diamond on its roof.  Her mother taught her to perform for princes and kings.  She lived in splendor, a lead dancer of the Royal Cambodian ballet, a tradition that dates back 12-hundred years.  During the Communist...

Sweet Beginnings

Planes aren’t the only thing taking off at Chicago’s O’Hare airport. Down at the end of the runway, a bee farm is soaring.  Sweet Beginnings created 360 new jobs in a neighborhood where crime is never more than a street corner...