Bulldozers pushed the remains of the barn past its fieldstone foundation on Friday. A Wisconsin family had farmed the same land in West Bend since 1847, with George Muth becoming the fifth generation of his family to work the farm. On Friday, the old barn on the Muth family property was demolished as the land…

They say some children are born prodigies, and when it comes to Ann Makosinski, the statement holds true. As a teenager living in Canada, her friend living in the Philippines told her that she couldn’t study at night since her family couldn’t afford electricity to turn the lights on. Soon she wondered if there was…

Beatrix Potter used the success of The Tale of Peter Rabbit to buy Hill Top, a 17th-century farmhouse and 34-acre farm in the Lake District village of Near Sawrey, in 1905. Potter was 39 and had already published six books with Frederick Warne & Co when she bought the property with proceeds from Peter Rabbit…

Image Credit: Left/Gage Skidmore/Right/Haughton High School Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott gifted more than $1 million to his alma mater, Haughton High School in Haughton, Louisiana, funding a new video scoreboard, described as one of the largest of its kind in the state, and a revamped weight room. The gift was honoured at a ceremony…

The estate, once known as Villa Vittoriosa, became Ross’s Promise Land. Rapper Rick Ross bought former heavyweight boxing champion Evander Holyfield’s Georgia estate for $5.8 million in 2014. The property, near Fayetteville, had a 45,000-square-foot mansion with 109 rooms, 12 bedrooms and 21 bathrooms, according to Architectural Digest. Ross later expanded the estate by buying…