Author: Tom
Alibates Flint
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/07Oct13-Alibates-Flint.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)It’s called Alibates flint, and this spot in the panhandle of Texas is the only place in the world where…
An Unexpected Surprise
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/04Oct13-Pierce-Allman-JFK-4.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)All this week we’ve heard from Pierce Allman, a Dallas broadcaster who witnessed and reported on the JFK assassination. The…
First Hand Accounts of the Kennedy Assassination
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/03Oct13-Pierce-Allman-JFK-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)One of the first broadcasters on the air with news of the shooting of President Kennedy was Pierce Allman. He…
A Reporter on the Biggest Story of All
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/02Oct13-Pierce-Allman-JFK-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Pierce Allman was a broadcaster and manager at WFFA, a radio and television station in Dallas. In the fall of…
On the Scene of An Assassination
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/01Oct13-Pierce-Allman-JFK-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In 1963, Pierce Allman was manager of programming and production for WFAA radio in Dallas, Texas. When President Kennedy came…
Hiding Cash in a Unique Way
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/30Sep13-Waldo-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When Union and Confederate sympathizers threatened to take this banker’s money, he did what any logical person would do–he dressed…
Where’s Waldo?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/27Sep13-Waldo-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A few years ago, you may remember the popular Where’s Waldo books that had kids searching for a man hidden…
Kafir Corn
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/26Sep13-El-Dorado-Kansas-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)You’ve probably never heard of Kafir Corn. However, turn back the clock a century and you may have been hearing…
A Change of Fortune
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/09/25Sep13-El-Dorado-Kansas-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)The first settlers to this region began to farm the land, but drought and grasshoppers made life miserable for most….
Teaching Small Farming Methods That Work
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/24Sep13-Free-Range-Chickens.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)When Herman’s son brought home an antiquated animal production book that he happened to find in his high school ag…
Bringing the Pheasant Home
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/23Sep13-Pheasant-Aircraft-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)Dr. Larry Wiggins had always hoped his hometown would be able to bring home a Pheasant airplane. The aircraft was…
The Pheasant Aircraft Company
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/20Sep13-Pheasant-Aircraft-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:58 — 2.0MB)It was a promising young business – the Pheasant Aircraft Company. In the early days of aviation, a well known…
A Flying Pheasant
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/19Sep13-Pheasant-Airplane-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)If you said you were looking for a pheasant you would probably be looking for a bird. But in the…
The Tallest Lady in the World
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/18Sep13-Ella-Ewing-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Folks in Scotland County, Missouri will tell you that their hometown girl, Ella Ewing, was the tallest lady in the…
The Story of Ella Ewing
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/17Sep13-Ella-Ewing-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)Today we say hello to our listeners on KMEM in Memphis, Missouri. Folks there know of a lady named Ella,…
The Willard Hotel
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/16Sep13-Willard-Hotel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)The round bar at the Willard Hotel has been the places where generations of politicians, celebrities and power brokers have…
A Place For the President To Stay
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/13Sep13-Willard-Hotel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)The President, of course, lives in the White House. But over the decades, when a president or president-elect has needed…
The Birthplace of the “Little Giant”
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/12Sep13-Stephen-Douglas-Birthplace.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:01 — 2.1MB)Abraham Lincoln led the country through the Civil War, but it was this man who defeated him for the Senate…
Earning the Title of Miss America
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/11Sep13-Miss-America-Shelby-Ringdahl-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.0MB)A new Miss America will be crowned this weekend. Of course only one person can earn that title, while everyone…
From the Hardwood to Another Competition
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2013/08/10Sep13-Miss-America-Shelby-Ringdahl-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:59 — 2.1MB)I first became acquainted with Shelby Ringdahl when she played basketball at Columbia Rock Bridge High School, a team which…
