The Pilot Who Came Back for the Azaleas — Brookings, OR
# The Samurai Sword in the Flower Town At an azalea festival in Brookings, Oregon, a former Japanese wartime pilot […]
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The Man Who Put Loveland on the Envelope — Loveland, CO
# The Little Love Detour Through Loveland Picture a valentine envelope with a little extra wink on it, the kind
The Lunch Basket That Built an Artists’ Haven — Peterborough, NH
# The Lunch Basket at the Studio Door A basket at a studio door is a quiet thing. No applause,
The Shoeshine Man Who Turned Tips Into Care — Pittsburgh, PA
# The Shoeshine Man Who Turned Tips Into Care Albert Lexie’s office smelled like shoe polish, not paperwork. For more
The Phoenix Pantry That Started With a Mother’s Good Idea — Phoenix, AZ
# The First Food Bank Began With a Mother’s Plain Good Sense A bank where the deposits were bread, cans,
The Seventy-Second Kindness at the Béjé — Haarlem, NL-NH
## The Little Shop Called the Béjé At Barteljorisstraat 19 in Haarlem, in a narrow Dutch street not far from
The Nurse Who Poured Root Beer at the Edge of the Wilderness — Ely, MN
# The Root Beer Lady of Knife Lake After a long paddle, with lake water flashing in your eyes and
The Green McAdoo School and the Courage of the Clinton 12 — Clinton, TN
## A Schoolhouse That Holds a City’s Memory In Clinton, Tennessee, the story of school desegregation is not preserved as
The Brazos Plantation Ima Hogg Saved — West Columbia, TX
## A River Place with Many Beginnings On the lower Brazos River, where Texas history gathers in layers rather than