Author: Tom
25 Years of Traveling the Countryside
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/06Oct21-American-Countryside-25th-Anniversary.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)On October 6th, 1996 I was away from home but called my mom early on a Saturday morning to put…
The Artichoke Lady
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/05Oct21-Artichoke-Lady-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Some people turn up their nose at brussels sprouts. Where do artichokes fare in comparison? We head to a valley…
A Marketing Challenge for a Vegetable
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/04Oct21-Artichoke-Lady-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Sometimes it’s hard to get kids to eat their vegetables. Now imagine the vegetable looks like a hand grenade and…
The Arlington Ladies
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/01Oct21-Arlington-Ladies.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)On Memorial Day we remember our loved ones, but these ladies recognize our fallen soldiers this weekend and every day…
A Mission to Turn a Bad Day Into a Good Day
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/30Sep21-Daves-Metal-Detecting-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Remember the phrase “finders keepers, losers weepers?” That definitely does not fit this man. When you hear his story, you may come…
Reuniting Lost Items
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/29Sep21-Daves-Metal-Detecting-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Have you ever had to go to a lost and found department? These days, those departments are often found online…
Finding a Needle in the Haystack
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/28Sep21-Daves-Metal-Detecting-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Imagine having a job that is like trying to find the needle in the proverbial haystack. Now imagine that is…
More Than An Ice Cream Cone
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/27Sep21-Youngs-Dairy-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)When is an ice cream cone more than just ice cream in a cone? It is here. It’s a family…
Young’s Jersey Dairy
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/24Sep21-Youngs-Dairy-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)North of Xenia, Ohio you’ll find a dairy farm with quite a history. Not only have they been milking cows…
Hotel of the Hall of Famers
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/23Sep21-Otesage-Hotel-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)The Baseball Hall of Fame has an induction ceremony each year and when that event takes place, the baseball greats…
Last of the Mohicans
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/22Sep21-Otesage-Hotel-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Perhaps you remember the book and the movie, the Last of the Mohicans. James Fennimore Cooper was the author of…
Pioneer Days of Ten Sleep, Wyoming
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/21Sep21-Wyoming-Homesteader-Hester-Currence.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If you are a resident of Wyoming, a four or five hour drive to get somewhere may not seem too…
A Museum Dedicated to Advertising
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/20Sep21-Museum-of-Advertising.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)If it were not for sponsors…daily broadcasts like this…and radio stations themselves for that matter would not be able to…
Amazing Photos from A Historic Event
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/17Sep21-Union-Pacific-Railroad-Museum-3.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This company was created from scratch in the 1860s. From the start, those founders knew that their work would be…
West from Mile Zero
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/16Sep21-Union-Pacific-Railroad-Museum-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)This is Mile Zero. For several years mile zero of this railroad would only take you to the banks or…
Lincoln’s Site To Begin a Railroad
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/15Sep21-Union-Pacific-Railroad-Museum-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Abraham Lincoln had an important decision to make. Where would be the beginning point of a new railroad. We don’t…
Who Inhabited Russel Cave?
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/14Sep21-Russell-Cave-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)Today you might get bad teeth from drinking too much soda…ten thousand years ago teeth were a problem as well…but…
The Unusual National Park Cave
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/13Sep21-Russell-Cave-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)It’s a cave in the national park system…yet it is far different that well known sites such as Mammoth Cave…
The Salt King’s Home
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/10Sep21-Arbor-Day-Farm-2.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You probably know this gentleman’s son for the salt company he founded that bears his name. but the father was…
A Place With No Trees Was No Place For Him
http://americancountryside.com/wp-content/gems/2021/09/09Sep21-Arbor-Day-Farm-1.mp3Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:00 — 2.1MB)You may enjoy a tree for its beauty, it’s shade, or perhaps the fruit that comes from it. But when…
