by Paula D. Webb | Jan 1, 2012 | Features
“…And a Three Fold Cord Is Not Quickly Broken.” Ecclesiastes 4:12 Tanned to cowboy perfection and accented by his trademark bushy, golden mustache, Charlie Liesen works from his sunlit “braiding room” in Hazleton, Idaho. Quietly and methodically, Liesen weaves thin...
by Paula D. Webb | Jul 1, 2011 | Features
Walking down the streets of Appleton, Colorado, with her husband, John Ottman, in the spring of 1956, Mary Lou Ottman noticed Capper’s Weekly, a “rural American know-how” magazine on the newsstand. It was a magazine her mother used to read in Kansas when she was a...
