For school and community photo-journalist Sarah Karlstrom, her accidental double-exposure when using her new Argus C3 35mm camera caused frustration. And determination not to make that mistake again. Later, that double-exposed negative proved to be a threat to cause a new trial about a Black-Market business in California. And Sarah learned to create intentional multiple-exposures while reporting about post-World War II veterans in college because of the G.I. Bill for education. Sarah also shifted from her own self-centered focus to a new understanding of her relationship with others. And she...

As a distance-runner and track coach and trainer--known as the "Oregon Glacier--Sandy Sandstrom runs into surprising opposition to his participation in a sports-medicine symposium. Players, coaches, fans, university officials, alumni and gamblers worry about change to their athletic status quo. But the Oregon Glacier moves steadily on, in face of threats about sports and the other aspects of his life.

The Civil War Homestead Act starts this saga in a Danish community in Iowa. A great-grandson restores the Homestead and uses a radio program to help the people of the Midwest deal with the threat and opportunity associated with ongoing change. That change affects him, too, as widower Krag connects with the female director of the Department of Rural Economics at Iowa State University. But a "firebug" related to a past conflict with Krag threatens the Homestead and all associated with it.

In the 1970s, a mysterious "will" hinting at a "treasure" gets the attention of a Norwegian engineer and his American friend in the petroleum industry. The will is hand-inscribed by a German officer on a World War II German poster, indicating a treasure had been hidden for his de facto Norwegian wife. So the two "detectives" team up to solve the mystery of an undreamed-of treasure and its secret location.

As place-kicker Walt Wickstrom witnesses the challenges of other players, he leads in the development of a cooperative organization called HUDDLE. He applies an algorithm, as he does for place-kicking, to maximize opportunities for continuing education, investment and insurance. HUDDLE also provides legal services and negotiating leverage for the approved members of HUDDLE. His attempts to enlist Kristina Ness of the Cone Fund as a consultant fail, but their friendship does grow. But resentment from the sports establishment also grows--as players, coaches, fans, sports media, owners and...

When war threatened in the late 1940's, the Army Air Force commissioned Ford to switch its factory in Upper Michigan to manufacturing plywood gliders. The Army Air Corps also enlisted the Scanlin Furniture Company in nearby Stevens Point, Wisconsin to switch from supplying the Ford plant with wood pieces for the Ford "Woodie" station wagons to providing wood parts for the military gliders. Eventually, the Scanlins also helped locate sources of lumber and plywood for manufacturing gliders. After the war, the Scanlins switched back to making furniture, with recent architecture graduate Kristin...

The Country Store in rural Minnesota during the Great Depression became a focus of the community, along with the one-room Country School and Prairie Lutheran Church. Then a binge of publicity occurred when a 4th grade student wanted to get a 1-cent candy bar as a birthday present for his younger brother. Lacking a penny, he had to sign an I.O.U. (though not seriously expected to be redeemed by the Country Store). Meanwhile, more news when a desperate young hobo from the freight train was found hiding in the basement of the nearby Country School, and he was captured in a "stakeout." But in the...