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Doc Westfall’s War Memorial
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/01/2026-0203-Angel-Fire-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When Doc Westfall lost a son to the Vietnam War, the event changed his plans for the future. His new…
Rancher Turned Veterans Memorial
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/01/2026-0202-Angel-Fire-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Westfalls had dreams of a ranch resort where they could retire. Then tragedy struck and the plans for the…
The Ezekiel Airship
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/01/2026-0130-Ezekiel-Airship.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Did a man in Texas build an aircraft that flew a full year before the Wright Brothers plane? There are…
The Untouchables
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/01/2026-0129-Eliot-Ness-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)They are called the Untouchables. However, you may have not heard their story if not for one year this man…
Fighting Cleveland’s Crime Problem
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/01/2026-0128-Eliot-Ness-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Cleveland was a city dealing with a major crime problem in the 1930s and 40s. The man they brought here…
One Man Determined to Stop Capone
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/01/2026-0127-Eliot-Ness-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When the 18th amendment to the US Constitution made alcohol illegal, many began to supply the drink illegally. It was…
Medicine Lodge
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/01/2026-0126-Medicine-Lodge-Kansas.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In south central Kansas you’ll find a place long important to Native Americans – a place where they and later…
The Lady With the Hatchet
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/01/2026-0123-Carry-Nation-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This lady was known to back up her words with her hatchet. And that hatchet is still well known over…
The After-Sermon Lecture
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/01/2026-0122-Carry-Nation-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you attended David Nation’s church in Medicine Lodge, Kansas, many would say the real sermon began when David’s wife…
Driving the Cannonball Run
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/01/2026-0121-Cannonball-Run-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many of us love road trips. Probably nothing we’ve experienced compares to what Jeff and Alexis Popick recently did. They…
A Father and Daughter Trip
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/01/2026-0120-Cannonball-Run-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many people decide to make the trip of a lifetime and drive their car from one coast to another. Now…
That Crazy Cross Country Race
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/01/2026-0119-Cannonball-Run-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the early 1980s the movie “Cannonball Run” hit movie theatres. Although the comedy is several decades old, many have…
MLK, Jr. Civil Rights Museum
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/01/2026-0116-MLK-Civil-Rights-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In downtown Memphis you’ll find part of a restored motel. It’s a place that would probably have been long forgotten…
On His Way to Address the Crowds
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/01/2026-0115-MLK-Civil-Rights-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It was April of 1968 and the garbage in Memphis was beginning to pile up and stink. A strike was…
Norman Rockwell
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/01/2026-0114-Norman-Rockwell-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many of us have seen many paintings by the artist Norman Rockwell. In fact, his work is still reproduced in…
Iconic Covers for the Saturday Evening Post
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/01/2026-0113-Norman-Rockwell-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you are of a certain age, you may have heard of the Saturday Evening Post. If you know that…
A Mind Not on the Big City
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/01/2026-0112-Norman-Rockwell-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Based on where this man grew up, you might think his mind would only be on matters in the big…
How Snowboarding Became Popular
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/01/2026-0109-Colorado-Snow-Sports-Museum-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today skiers and snowboarders often occupy many snowy slopes simultaneously. But that was once not the case as upstart snowboarders…
The 10th Mountain Division’s Project
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/01/2026-0108-Colorado-Snow-Sports-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When these soldiers returned home from World War II, their experiences in Europe greatly influenced what many did when they…
The Battle of Riva Ridge
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2026/01/2026-0107-Colorado-Snow-Sports-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It is known as the Battle of Riva Ridge, a decisive moment in World War II, and a military exercise…
