Author: Tom
Best of 2025 – Border Line Library
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/12/26Dec25-Best-of-2025-Border-Line-Library.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)There is a black tape line on the floor of the library in Derby Line, Vermont. Walk inside and cross…
Where Letters to Santa Go
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/12/25Dec25-Santa-Claus-House-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When I was in elementary school we wrote letters to Santa. Maybe you did the same thing once upon a…
Santa Claus House
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/12/24Dec25-Santa-Claus-House-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We all know that Santa lives at the North Pole. But for awhile, Santa was living at the Davis Railroad…
Santa’s True Home
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/12/23Dec25-Santa-Claus-House-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)A lot of communities in the U.S. will have a visit from Santa. It’s a chance for the kids in…
The Mendenhall Homeplace
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/12/22Dec25-Mendenhall-Homeplace-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In the heart of the south, there was one Quaker community determined to not only bring an end to slavery,…
The Mendenhall Homeplace
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/12/19Dec25-Mendenhall-Homeplace-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)We might imagine that prior to the Civil War, most large farming operations in the south used slave labor. Today…
When Your Competitor Moves the Road
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/12/18Dec25-Mendenhall-Homeplace-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Major highways can be a very important way to get people to your business. What do you do when your…
The Shaker Village
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/12/17Dec25-Shaker-Village-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)In western Massachusetts you’ll find a picturesque farm with a history that stretches all the way back to the late…
Using Innovative Farming Practices
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/12/16Dec25-Shaker-Village-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some may come to this farming village and think the methods they used are antiquated. However, a deeper look at…
A Religion With Dancing
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/12/15Dec25-Shaker-Village-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When this religious group first came to North America, many citizens did not know what to make of their interesting…
The American Clock and Watch Museum
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/12/12Dec25-American-Clock-and-Watch-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Many people think the most intricate timepieces made today are those constructed by the Swiss. But there was once a…
Keeping Track of Time
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/12/11Dec25-American-Clock-and-Watch-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Our time is something pretty important to most of us. We may keep track of it with our phone or…
Guy Gruters’ Story
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/12/10Dec25-POW-Guy-Gruters-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Guy Gruters was held as a prisoner of war for over five years in Vietnam. Over fifty years after his…
A Prisoner of War for Over Five Years
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/12/09Dec25-POW-Guy-Gruters-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Guy Gruters was taken as a prisoner of war just before Christmas of 1967. It was the beginning of over…
400 Combat Missions in Vietnam
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/12/08Dec25-POW-Guy-Gruters-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Guy Gruters flew over 400 combat missions in the Vietnam War. Two of those missions resulted in him ejecting from…
The Ace of Clubs House
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/11/05Dec25-Ace-of-Clubs-House-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s a home with gigantic ceilings and a resident who had over 500 pairs of shoes, not to mention it…
Building a House from a Gambling Fortune
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/11/04Dec25-Ace-of-Clubs-House-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When this man won a card game that gained him a small fortune, he decided to build his family a…
A City on the State Line
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/11/03Dec25-Texarkana.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This city was established on a state line and one of its most important buildings is literally on top of…
Where Doctor Training Began
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/11/02Dec25-AT-Still-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Thirty percent of all doctors trained in the U.S. have this distinction. The story of how it all began can…
Turning To a New Occupation
https://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2025/11/01Dec25-AT-Still-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Andrew wanted to be a farmer, but when a drought wiped out his crop, he had thoughts of teaching school. …
