Olsen had been dabbling in photography since he purchased his first digital camera in 1997. “I’d take my camera into the duck blind to keep my friends from fibbing about how many they shot,” he said. “Pretty soon, I was taking pictures of the sunrise on the way out and the sunset as we headed home.”

Elkhorn native Patrick Gottsch figured rural America needed a television network of its own. After being told “no” more times than he cares to remember, Gottsch decided to take it upon himself and develop the network, called RFD-TV. Now, after 10 years, RFD-TV reaches 40 million homes in rural and urban America.

Like a fine painting, to appreciate Valentine you’d best back up past the city limits and into greater Cherry County – Nebraska’s largest county canvas.