Mike Tracy works as a teamster at Cowtown where he drives the wagons and gives folks a feeling for travel in 1870.

The Gilkeys have created programs through the Urban League of Kansas that change young lives, but they had to first change their own lives.

It's not often you put the words 'detective' and 'cheerleading' in the same sentence, but for Valley Center Police Detective Jay Grayson, the two are inseparable.

After he was diagnosed with Parkinson's, Wayne Clark had to figure out a way to continue painting without being hampered by the tremors.

Loren Wade is the oldest worker in Kansas and may be the oldest worker Wal-Mart has ever employed.

The homeless evoke reactions from all of us, mostly based on our political leaning. But they are a people who won't go away. Wichitian Bob Johnson knows that first hand.

Larry and Barbara Richardson got the thrill of a lifetime after the national media discovered the replica of the Golden Gate Bridge they built at their home in rural Mulvane.

The Bennington artist has painted nearly every sunrise since 2005.

A fire caused the building's owners to put it up for sale and because the restaurant was too important to the history of the town to have an uncertain future, citizens took action.

Joelle Wales is a Sedgwick County woman who has found a calling as a deer biographer.

Korean War veteran J.R. Willcut is an 80-year-old former Marine who is bound by tradition and honor.

In 2006, Jeanne Gordon and her daughter Gabriele were on a bicycle ride when they were hit by a pickup truck. Gabriele was killed and Jeanne was paralyzed. For the first time, Jeanne tells her story.

Five years ago, few would have believed how far the town has come, including Emergency Management Director Ray Stegman.

Created by Sharolyn and Jay Wagner, The Linger Longer in Bennington, Kansas is part soda fountain, part museum and a great little place to just hangout.

A plant purchased in 1976 was nearly forgotten until recently when it finally started to grow. Now Ed Ward's century plant is the talk of the town.

One year ago, drastic funding cuts made Kansas the only state without an arts commission. The show Art Lives, organized by artist Rachel Buller, reflects on the current state of the arts in Kansas.

Viable small Kansas towns are rare but exception is Tipton where people like Fred Smith came back from the big city to make a difference in a small one.

Five years ago, the birth of her first child sent Amy Kear into severe postpartum depression. It was then she discovered she had artistic talent and began to paint the pain.

On Hatteberg's People, Straw Hidaka is a one woman dynamo for the homeless and for those in need. Her life could have been one bitterness and hate. That didn't happen. She's just the opposite. Her adult life has been full of love and compassion. But as a child, her life was a nightmare.

If you live in Harper County, you've seen Merle Walker on his bicycle. He's everywhere. So the question is: what's he doing? Turns out, it's a lot.

The Old Hardware Store in Halstead looks much the same as it did a hundred years ago. Inside, you'll find one of a kind pieces of hardware from the past. And you'll find Margaret.

Julie Hildebrand took the Independence Library from deep financial trouble to the best small library in the nation.

Bob Greer edits the newspaper in Protection, Kansas. For 25 years and a lifetime before that, he's been doing what he loved.

Glora Emery is a young woman with a seemingly unlimited store of energy. She works at Liberty Tax where she dresses as the Statue of Liberty and dances up a storm for hours on end.

Lynn Pettigrew Norris and her husband Randy are hoping to start a library in Dexter, Kansas which they hope will be a literal lighthouse on the prairie.