Author: Tom
A Bridge With a Curve
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/07Jun12-Chain-of-Rocks-Bridge-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)The development of not only cars, but roads themselves, has improved safety and lessened highway fatalities. But in the 1920s,…
The Location of the National D-Day Memorial
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/06Jun12-D-Day-Memorial-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)It’s been nearly seven decades since allied troops landed at Normandy on D-day. Over four thousand men gave their lives…
From a Small Farming Community
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/06/05Jun12-D-Day-Memorial-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Many of those who served in World War II actually joined the armed forces before the tragedy at Pearl Harbor….
The National D-Day Memorial
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/06/04Jun12-Bob-Garst-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Bob Garst spent 22 years in the armed forces. Today he is retired, but much of his job is simply…
Bob Garst
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/05/01Jun12-Bob-Garst-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)It’s estimated that over three million military men and women served in Vietnam and neighboring nations during the Vietnam War….
Inspired by a Character from Happy Days
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/31May12-Santa-Monica-Pier-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Dan Rice has traveled the length of Route 66 over two dozen times. It might surprise people that his original…
The Sign at Santa Monica Pier
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/30May12-Santa-Monica-Pier-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Today this sign on Santa Monica Pier attracts a steady stream of travelers who pose by it. Interestingly, it’s a…
The End of Route 66
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/29May12-Santa-Monica-Pier-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)In 1926 Route 66 ended at the corner of 7th and Broadway in downtown Los Angles, California. Today, most people…
The Wounded Warrior Program
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/28May12-Wounded-Warrior-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)On Memorial Day we remember our friends and family who have passed. It is a day of tribute and remembrance…
A Program for Injured Soldiers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/25May12-Wounded-Warrior-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Soldiers may encounter all kinds of obstacles on the battlefield. What Mary did not realize was the great challenges they…
William Paca
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/24May12-William-Paca.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)As the colonies approached the year 1776, old social ties were sometimes stretched thin. But in the capitol of Maryland,…
A Celebrity Inmate
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/05/23May12-Boonville-County-Jail-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Occasionally there are nationally known celebrities that break the law and must serve some jail time. Those cases, of course,…
The Cooper County Jail
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/05/22May12-Boonville-County-Jail-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)The historic jail in Boonville, Missouri was built to house those convicted of crimes in the county. However, it also…
Returning to the Country That Held You Prisoner of War
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/05/21May12-Camp-Algona-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)It’s hard to imagine being held as a prisoner of war and then, after the war, immigrating to the country…
Camp Algona
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/05/18May12-Camp-Algona-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Over the years, you’ve heard us feature some towns in the heartland of America that served as POW camps during…
The Globetrotter Lodge
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2011/04/17May12-Globetrotter-Lodge.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Many people would love to live in the Austrian Alps. This couple decided the wide open spaces of eastern Arizona…
A Pancake Jubilee
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/05/16May-12-KMA-History-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Imagine hosting a breakfast so large that you needed to buy pancake flour by the boxcar. That’s exactly what happened…
Two Rival Nurseries and Radio Stations
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/05/15May12-KMA-History-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Today we say hello to our friends in Southwest Iowa. Folks there have been tuning into their radios for decades…
The Kansas Cosmosphere
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2009/08/Kansas-Cosmosphere-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:02 — 1.9MB)Today we’re back in Hutchinson, KS and say hello to our listeners on KWBW. I can attest to what folks…
The Inspiration for Radiator Springs
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2012/05/11May12-Holbrook-Arizona-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 1.4MB)Sometimes movies do more than just bring in dollars at the box office. They occasionally have an impact on the…
