last hundred years galena has a good way of reinvicinienting itself. we're hoping this year we turn that corn err little bit so as things might be getting better east and west coast, that's a sign for p us that hopefully help is on the way. >> steve white, renld view coffee and tea, three years on main street. business is always spotty. it's a seasonal tourist town so, during the summer and the fall we do very, very well. during the winter, it gets very, very slow. and spring is kind of -- all depends on whether it's raining or not. >> deb malone, beaver river outfitters, ten years on main street. people are holding on to their money longer. they're not making reservations as far in advanced a they used to. we get more walk-in business and spontaneity than we did in the past. >> david lewis, great american popcorn company, 19 years on main street. my current store front is the fourth evolution of my business. but you're always trying to maneuver yourself into what you perceive to be and most often is a better traffic and better footprint for whatever b

having on the internet you don't retain people you know that they don't do unto you they come to galena if you wanna keep them. also if you wanna keep enjoying doing or where it continued on and what you love. he has to stay free seeking keep on loving it. to think fashion is that it isn't suited to having that kind of a blogger or work includes any topic equally lucrative to think in in in the long form. other subjects can be created that even thinking of a tank and an end on sunday sweets i also kept thinking to stay interesting um because i was and is a huge subject in dogs. i'm heading to think that fashion has the additional element that makes it so interesting you know because you can use not only a blunt you can have a team stressed instead around all these mean yes there are so we use for you the business of fashion you know and that i think the visual element that so strong. as you said you're not just a blogger you're also an illustrator and photographer a writer what could include speed you say you have now in the fashion industry and hunter got a peek at that. may god help y

he was nearly 40 and he is living in a rented house in galena, illinois, and the high point of his day is playing with the little kids on the floor of the living room. he seemed to be reasonably content. people who knew him then didn't think he was bid or his life had come to anything. no. that was his life. and the war comes and discovers in its of something that he had no clue about, as far as i can tell, that he had this genius for military command. if you think back and it's not too surprising he wouldn't have found it, because war is this different sort of thing. america can have served in the war with mexico in a junior position. there you take other people's orders. you don't formulate strategy but he discovered when he had command he was really good at it and he rocketed to the top of his profession. if not for the work that wouldn't have happened and they think he would've lived out the rest of his life with that particular talent undiscovered. >> to add the bills answer, just briefly, just two words, colin powell. if he had run for president he might have been elected. certai

and supposedly, the jackass kicked over a big piece of galena ore, and that started the rush here.but mostly you find those minerals underground. you often find gold closer to the top, which was one of the first rushes to this area. but when they found the silver, that's when kellogg started. it was about the 1880s. a mining town looks very different from a town in the midwest. in this town we had a smelter, so it was constantly pumping out smelter smoke, and we had tall smokestacks that would pump it out day and night. and towards the end of the time the mine was still going, they did a smokestack that was 750 feet high to push the poisons higher up so it'd get in the wind and go someplace else. a smelter is where you take the ores and smelt them down; that is, put them in big vats of boiling chemicals, and then we would get silver, lead and zinc, and lead was the predominant metal. but with lead you often had silver and zinc. all those were products from this mine. here in this valley, um, the boom lasted 100 years. it went from the 1880s to the 1980s when the mine was closed dow