Small Biz Friday: The Windsor Theatre
The Windsor Theatre in Hampton, Iowa is a non-profit organization. It’s housed in a brick building that also includes four apartments, a basement where a portion is used by the Jaycees as a meeting hall and an office. The building was constructed in 1917 and they are celebrating 100 years of being in business. Back…
Prairie Silence
Melanie Hoffert … remember that name. She’s a writer and I’ve had the pleasure of reading her first book. Prairie Silence. Her story tracks much like mine. She couldn’t wait to leave the rural home and head to the big city. And now that she’s acquired a place in that new,brave world – she’s missing…
Offline and Online Marketing
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Who’s Buried in Grant’s Tomb?
On Fridays we generally post Small Biz Friday. This guest post is by a small business owner, Pat Palmer, The Computer Guy. You can read about his business by clicking here. However, as most small business owners know, it’s important to be involved in the community you live in. Small businesses, pay taxes locally, donate…
Headstones in the Parking Lot
Tuesday night Hope Polk posted a picture of a headstone on Facebook. It was a headstone found in a parking lot. I smelled a story brewing. El Valle is fixing their parking lot and it involves tearing up the old pavement lot and laying down new concrete. During the tearing up part the crew found…
Harvest of Love
When thinking of writing in the month of October, naturally my first thought was the activity synonymous with this time of year…harvest. We were blessed with great weather for the harvest season, as well as better than expected crop yields. But “harvest” has taken on a new meaning to me since I became friends with…
Blog Action Day: The Power of We
Bloggers around the world today are posting on Blog Action Day. it started in 2007 and the global topic today is The Power of We. I believe in thinking global and buying local. I live in a community of 10,000 people in my entire county, and our livelihoods are dependent on residents buying local. This…
Transparent – maybe not always.
I was going to tell you the story of my estranged brother. However, is this a story I really need to share? No, it’s not. It’s a story for my family, not a story for the public. How many of us tell all of our stories in order to be truly transparent? Is transparency always…
Small Biz Friday: Country Heritage Bed and Breakfast
1n 1921 Carl Borcherding built a house. It’s believed to be a mail order house from Sears and Roebuck. This house was on the family farm and three generations lived in it before it became the bed and breakfast it is today. Donnis Borcherding, her daughter Lacey Elphic and family friend Crystal Cross now run…
Gems from my Google Reader
I’ve started reading my Google Reader more than once a week. I’m always looking for news and interesting things to share and in that quest I’ve saved quite a few blogs in my Reader. Here’s just a few fun things from the past couple of days. Google Alert for Hampton, Iowa: I have the alert…