Expanding Dixie outside the Valley

by Joshua Wood

The Platte Valley has long been home to creative minds. At the turn of the last century, Lora Webb Nichols documented day-to-day life in the Valley with one of the first cameras in the area. Writers, some internationally known, currently or have previously called the Valley home. It is almost as if there is something in the environment that not only encourages creativity, but helps it flourish.

Among those flourishing creative minds are Dixie Berger and her husband, Kirby, co-owners of Pure Dixie. A common site at the annual Saratoga Holiday Bazaar, and at events like Saratoga D...