An old airplane hangar, a dairy farmer, and a women's college from Missouri.

Explore every decade of OST's history, pre-theatre airplane hangar shots, and more on our blog.

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Explore Stephens College

Thank you to Gary and Joleen Koch for sponsoring this episode!

Guests: Rob Doyen, resident actor at OST

Michael Burke, Director of Production and Operations at OST

Ruth Ann Burke, Executive Director at OST

Put on your American flag t-shirts and bell bottoms! We're setting the clock to July 1976 to see how Okoboji celebrated the bicentennial summer.

Explore Dickinson County’s wild bicentennial history on our website with photos from the Spirit Lake parade, wild commemorative merch, and videos from the national celebration on our blog.

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Visit The Dickinson County Museum and give to sustain their invaluable community resources.

Guests: Tom Wilson, Michelle Henneberg Miller, and Sally Benit Morkovsky

Before the bike trails, there were the railroads. The story of the lines that brought Gilded Age battles, built towns overnight, and connected the Iowa Great Lakes to the rest of the world.

Explore every depot in Dickinson County, decades of railroad maps, and how the railroads are still visible in the Iowa Great Lakes on our blog.

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Visit The Dickinson County Museum and give to sustain their invaluable community resources.

Check out the Dickinson County Trails System and make a gift to help the trails grow.

Guests: Erin Reed, Executive Director of the Dickinson County Trails Association

Frank Christanson, Research Manager at the Dickinson County Museum

Jean Ann Myhre, Executive Director of the Dickinson County Museum

Mary Dreier, former Executive Director of the Dickinson County Museum